anyone here use, or know much about these units other than the limited website details http://www.endace.com/
Wondering if anyone is using, or has used these and what they think of these
Certainly looks like an interesting mix of open source and hardware embedding
Hi Gavin, Endace is a commercialised product spun off from the WAND group at the University of Waikato, and as such a fair number of former and current WLUG members have used these. The cards themselves are fairly impressive - I have used them to do line rate capture of saturated gige traffic (something over 1.1Mpps I think?). They are in a fairly niche market however, and unless you're actually wanting to do traffic analysis or anything you might need a network coprocessor for, probably not really something you can slip into your Christmas wishlist.... If you have any specific queries (ie, you actually want to buy one and want real info) it's probably best to talk to Endace directly, as they will be able to give better information about their current product range and so on. There might even be some Endace employees still lurking on the list here somewhere... And if you just want some more general info about how it works, feel free to ask here, although it's not *really* on topic for WLUG.