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Design questions...
From: "Jeremy Finke" <Jeremy.Finke () MeridianIQ com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:30:29 -0600
Hi, I have some performance questions that I hope that someone would be able to help me out with. I am trying to convince my boss to start implementing snort at a serious level. Problem is, he is a windows/closed source type of guy and I am a unix/open source type of guy. I am trying to convince him to buy seperate boxes for each of the sensors and then a logging box that has its own private network to send data across. Ideally, I would have 4 snort sensors and one of them be an ACID/PHP/MySQL log server. He does not want to pay for all the boxes because he thinks that they are going to cost $2.5k a pop. I think that we can go with a non major vendor (pogo linux, penguin computing, etc....) and get it cheaper, but that is a different story. So, he brought up the idea of having one big box and having multiple nics. Now, I know that this can easily be done using multiple snort processes/conf files/etc... However, I am wondering about the performance of such a beast. What type of horsepower do I need to monitor 2 T1s (on seperate networks) and 2 100MB networks (also seperate)? Also, it will probably be running the database as well, on a seperate network. Can people give me an idea of what they are running out there? Thanks! Jeremy Finke
Current thread:
- Design questions... Jeremy Finke (Oct 29)
- Re: Design questions... Jarret Gibson (Oct 29)
- RE: Design questions... Wayne T Work (Oct 29)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Design questions... Randy Bey (Oct 29)
- Re: RE: Design questions... larc (Oct 29)
- Design questions... Jeremy Finke (Oct 29)
- RE: RE: Design questions... Jeremy Finke (Oct 29)
- RE: Design questions... Jakub Molek (Oct 30)