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Thanks Chris, your input is much appreciated. The filtering is the purpose of my IP Ports question submitted not long after this one :)<br />
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Has anyone tried this on a server performing login authentication and/or file sharing?<br />
I suspect if capturing is only say 10% of the traffic, it won't have a huge impact but it'd be nice to hear from someone who's tried it.
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Thanks Chris, your input is much appreciated. The filtering is the purpose of my IP Ports question submitted not long after this one :)

Has anyone tried this on a server performing login authentication and/or file sharing?
I suspect if capturing is only say 10% of the traffic, it won't have a huge impact but it'd be nice to hear from someone who's tried it.

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Thanks everyone. &nbsp;I really appreciate your assistance with these queries. &nbsp;Special thanks to Frabble... an excellent suggestion I hadn't though of!
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Thanks everyone.  I really appreciate your assistance with these queries.  Special thanks to Frabble... an excellent suggestion I hadn't though of!

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Hi All,<br />
Is it practical to leave Ethereal installed on a server capturing for an extended period (24Hrs+, I have around 200GB Available)?<br />
What kind of performance hit would be expected for a dual xeon machine with SCSI drives and a gigabit network card?<br />
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Thanks in advance
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Hi All,
Is it practical to leave Ethereal installed on a server capturing for an extended period (24Hrs+, I have around 200GB Available)?
What kind of performance hit would be expected for a dual xeon machine with SCSI drives and a gigabit network card?

Thanks in advance

Suitability of long term (ie: 24 hours) packet capturing on a production server

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Networking

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