Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: FW: [Ethereal-users] [Ethereal Users] Hardware Specs of my Ethereal PC

[Hansang Bae <hbae@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12:27 PM 5/23/2005, Percival Jr. Gahunia wrote:
>I would like to follow up my inquiries below... to give you a little backround on our network, we are a distributor of internet content. we requested a pool of IP addresses from an ISP and we distribute them to the customers.. I put my analyzer in the router trunk and there it is I am capturing a huge amount of packet at a short period of time... for this reason my PC crashes when I stopped and opening the file...
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>>Is there anybody there who can suggest the appropriate Specifications for my PC. The current Specs of my PC right now is Pentium 4 CPU 3.0GHz. 256MB of RAM running in MS Windows XP Pro Version 2002 Service Pack 1.


More memory would help.  What good is 3GHz P4 w/ just 256MB of memory *and* running XP.

But, you can help your cause by just capture the headers.  128Bytes is pretty decent slice size.  There is very little need to capture full packets unless you need to stitch it back together.

hsb