Platforms?

[Russell Fulton]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 13:07:22 -0400 JILL TOTH <TOTHJIL at aquinas.edu> 
wrote:

> Where do I find out about the hardware and software requirements of  
> Argus? 
> 

Just to add tp what Peter has already said:  Until very recently I had 
argus running on a P1-75MHz 32MB Linux box on a fairly heavily loaded 
10Mbps ethernet (around 4Mbps real traffic). CPU sat at around 20% and 
so far as I know I never dropped any packets. I also have some 133MHz 
boxes.

I am currently replacing them all with bottom of the range IBM Aptivas 
(Physically small box so I can get them into the DMZ rack) with K6 @ 
500MHz and 128 MB memory with FreeBSD.  These boxes show CPU usage of 
less than 1%.  We are about to upgrade our DMZ to 100BT ethernet and we 
expect our traffic to sore as new fibre link between NZ and US comes on 
line in a month or so leading to much cheaper prices (or so we are 
promised ;-)  I have no worries that the new boxes will cope with the 
load.

Cheers, Russell