Contracts Livio.. Very exciting work!
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:17 PM, livio <lricciu
...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I wanted to give some recent, detailed performance number on the
> 10G appliance. We have done
> some extra work to optimize its processing using Luca Deri's Direct
> Nic Access (DNA) driver (5.1). The results are impressive.
> New numbers using the Intel icc compiler are very encouraging. We
> found that a 2 processor X5670 system can easily
> sustain 5 Gbps. We run some academic traces with 4 different Snort
> EmergingThreats Pro rule configurations and we are seeing < 5%
> drop rate with up to 6900 rules. We are going to publish these
> results through the snort and ntop mailing list soon; with
> instructions on how
> to reproduce the numbers. In the meantime, let me know if you have any
> questions.
> Livio.
> On Sep 21, 10:45 am, Timothy Covel <tco...@metaflows.com> wrote:
>> We looked at two possible 10G deployment options in the past:
>> Single System:
>> 1 10gig NIC; 2 X Intel Xeon X5650 Westmere 2.66GHz LGA 1366 95W Six-Core
>> Server
>> Processor; Kingston 12GB (6 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 ECC; 4 X
>> Seagate Barracuda ST31000524AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard
>> Drive
>> Load Balanced System:
>> 4 1u rackmounts with 4GB RAM, 250G disk, Intel i7 processor, 2x1G Ethernet
>> 1 NIAGARA 4208-1SR-4TX1 10Gb Load balancer
