> I am asked to write a custom sniffer with libpcap on Linux that has to > handle a load of 50.000 packets per second. The sniffer has to detect all > HTTP requests and dump the URI with additional information, such as > request size and possibly response time/size.
Looks very similar to : http://github.com/securactive/junkie if you can live with the AGPL, maybe we could join forces ? > Regarding the load of 50.000 packets a second, is this expected to be a > problem? Junkie handle this rate of packets (quite more actually) on one of our test probe running on a 8 core PC, with plenty of CPU left. So I bet this is not a problem. - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.