Snort Optimizations

["Turnbough, Bradley E." <bturnbough () belcan com>]

Hi All,

Does snort have the ability to use the latest / greatest GPU technology to help offload some of the traffic detection?

Other than being specifically compiled for PF_RING, are there any requirements of PF_RING?  I.e.  special hardware?

Lastly, does snort need any additional flags during run time to be told to use any special CPU extensions?  For 
example: open vpn can utilize the AESNI extension to speed up traffic encryption / decryption, but only if told 
specifically told to during run time.  Otherwise it doesnt use the AESNI extension.
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