On 0, Angela Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Snort by itself doesn't seem to use a lot of CPU. What eats up CPU on my > Snort system is the snortsnarf tool that takes the log information and > outputs it to HTML reports. A "reasonably fast" system like a Pentium II or > higher should work just fine. It's not a memory hog either. If you are > building this box put in 128MB since it's cheap right now and you should be > fine. > > Jason > > -----Original Message----- > From: Subba Rao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 4:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [techtalk] Snort - Sensor and Analyst console HW config > > > Hello, > > I have posted the same question to Snort mailing list and did not > get a satisfactory answer. > > I am planning to deploy a Snort IDS for a client of mine. The Internet > connection is at 256K to their ISP. What kind of processor and memory would > be > recommended for a sensor with 4 NICs monitoring about 3 DMZs? There will be > only one analysis system. What kind of processor and memory is required on > this > system? > > Hopefully someone here has configured HW for Snort in production. > Thanks for your input. One more question, does multiple instances of snort on the same machine, use up memory? -- Subba Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.home.net/subba9/ _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
