Stanislav Sinyagin ssinyagin@yahoo.com wrote:
Migros is selling a cheap netbook for CHF 222.- http://goo.gl/1tZ5C Acer Aspire One AOD 255E-13DQws 1024x600 screen, 1GB RAM, 250GB disk 6-cell battery (!)
It's a perfect device for remotely-controlled network tests, like packet capture or any telnet/snmp/SIP/perlscript testing scenarios that you like.
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My Experience is that notebooks are not realy useful for packet sniffing...as more an more Gibabit is common and laptops are no a recommended option to measure data transmission.
Especialy when capture filters will be used...
Also the available disc space is very limited...
I prefer older server infrastructure, that is able to run captures from several points with 2-4 or more NIC's in a ringbuffer configuration...
Cheers Martin