Re: Question about best hardware

["M. Morgan" <mikemorgan () mindspring com>]

Hi Mike,
 I'm sure you'll get alot of different replies but Im going to give you the specs on my IDS server and you can work 
from that if you like. I use a simple P4 2.4, ASUS motherboard with 720mb of PC 3700 DDR Ram, 80GB IDE drive for a 
MYSQL server, I have 3 remote snort boxes writting to this database and it works flawlessly.  

 The only time it really has to do any performance is when I looking through the events with snortcenter and it does 
very well at that. I know your looking into a RAID setup but something around the same performance as mine should be 
fine. Ive run it on alot less but I had to be more patient when looking through the database too.

 I also recommend Sentinix Linux as the OS to use, it will save you *alot* of setup time and has no desktop GUI 
overhead on the server (you can use webmin if you want a GUI).
www.sentinix.org

have fun,
Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Cohen <mike () antropyinc com>
Sent: Mar 4, 2004 1:54 PM
To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: [Snort-users] Question about best hardware

Hi Folks, 

Im am beginning snort user, and I have been asked to spec a production snort
server to do the following:

Monitor all traffic in and out of a relatively busy Mail Server(300 users).
The mail server is on a gigabit link and is usually at about 300mbs average
usage, it rarely gets super saturated.

I will be storing the logs on the snort box itself and I have to use a
hardware raid solution.

I am told I must spec an HP brand server and I have the following questions.

1. I thought I remembered reading that Opterons have an advantage when
trying to sniff gigabit traffic , but I have never used an opteron, and as
an intermediate Linux User Im not entirely confident trying to force linux
to work on a new architecture, are there any problems with linux and snort
on an opteron.

2. How much memory do I need? I specd 1gb, is this sufficient for high
usage?

3. Which distro is best for an intermediate level Linux user? I know that
there is no cut and dry answer to this question, but if anyone has any
insight on using snort on a RAID 1 box , using an opteron on gigabit please
chime in.

If anyone has any other insights as to recommended hardware please let me
know.

Thanks.



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