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Does tcpdump supports 10 G data packets to capture?

I want 10G supported sniffer to capture packets.I searched many but i found that the common analyser wireshark doesnot support 10G packets.How to i sniff 10G packets .Is there any tool to sniff 10g data packets.

Any ideas or solutions will be appreciable

Solution

  • Does tcpdump supports 10 G data packets to capture?

    The answer is: Yes.

    Because:

    tcpdump/ wireshark or rather the underlying pcap software does not care at all about 10baseT, 100baseT, 1000baseT, one gazillion peta-bits-OMG-look-how-fast-I-go per seconds or more.

    But you will/may have issues on your CPU, RAM, disk access bandwidth. Because 10 giga-bits per seconds is a pretty heavy load no matter the software - this becomes a hardware issue.