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AlfSutherland
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Hi,
If you use a non-NAI gig card, the Sniffer Distributed software will think the card is a Ethernet card at 1000MB. You will be able to see some of the monitoring sniffer applications, but the capture side will have major issues.
These problems are that you won't see any specific information about the A and B channels, or any of the physical errors. The capture will be very un-reliable as normal gig cards aren't able to capture. The reason being is that the gig traffic can't pass through the system bus into system memory. The NAI gig cards have on board memory and a processor, so it can save the packet info - this also explains the cost of NAI Gig products.
Alf
If you use a non-NAI gig card, the Sniffer Distributed software will think the card is a Ethernet card at 1000MB. You will be able to see some of the monitoring sniffer applications, but the capture side will have major issues.
These problems are that you won't see any specific information about the A and B channels, or any of the physical errors. The capture will be very un-reliable as normal gig cards aren't able to capture. The reason being is that the gig traffic can't pass through the system bus into system memory. The NAI gig cards have on board memory and a processor, so it can save the packet info - this also explains the cost of NAI Gig products.
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