Argus 2.0 wishes

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Peter,
   You know the AGP interface on WinTel boxes
is fast enough to access and process gig data
streams.  Why not have a dual interface gig
ethernet board with a few good ASCIs that
attaches via the AGP?

Carter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Van Epp [mailto:vanepp at sfu.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 11:20 AM
> To: argus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: Argus 2.0 wishes
> 
> 
> > > 	Or as a network tool that runs on a stripped down box 
> that really isn't
> > > Unix anymore (since Argus is really mostly a state 
> machine that understands
> > > the network).
> > 
> > Hmmmm... we still maintain a DOS version of NeTraMet, it's 
> got all the 
> > packet capture code...  Also there is Trinux ( 
> http://www.trinux.org/ )
> > which would be a lot more straight forward.
> >
> 	I was actually looking at the example code done in the 
> Circuit Cellar
> Inc magazine intended for the embedded market. They started 
> with protected
> mode boot code (creating gdts and all those lovely Intelisms) 
> and as I recall
> moved up to stubs or perhaps an interrupt driven serial 
> driver. Its not clear
> to me that we are going to be able to even use C until we are 
> at the TCP
> processing stage, I suspect performance will require assembly 
> at the bottom 
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