All, Today's talk on ourmon and the speed limitations of BPF/pcap reminded me of a talk I saw at NANOG last month entitled: "10 Gbps Line Speed Programmable Hardware for Open Source Network Processing Applications" here: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0405/ricciulli.html Metanetworks seems to already make an FPGA-based card to do Snort/BPF expressions at gig speeds: http://www2.metanetworks.org/products/mtp.html enjoy, -- -Irving Popovetsky ProStructure Consulting http://www.prostructure.com Network and Security Consulting phone: (503) 288-1566 "Crafting Connectivity that Matters"
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