[Oisf-users] 10 Gbps NIDS HW platform

[Peter Manev]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Kazimiarovich, Gene
<gene.kazimiarovich at westernsouthernlife.com> wrote:
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> All high performance Suricata tuning and testing plaforms that I was able to
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There are bunch of good NICs out there not only 82599EB  - this is
good and cheap however :)

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> Is 82599 ES controller compatible for the task? What difference in HW specs
> and configuration is critical?

You should not have a problem with either. If you are interested in
specific differences -
http://ark.intel.com/compare/66004,32207,41282

They are from the same controller family but EB seems more
"virtualization" oriented -
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/embedded/products/networking/82599-10-gigabit-ethernet-controller-family.html



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> Gene Kazimiarovich
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Peter Manev