Who needs PF_RING™?
Basically everyone who has to handle many packets per second. The term
‘many’ changes according to the hardware you use for traffic analysis.
It can range from 80k pkt/sec on a 1,2GHz ARM to 14M pkt/sec and above
on a low-end 2,5GHz Xeon. PF_RING™ not only enables you to capture
packets faster,it also captures packets more efficiently preserving
cpu cycles. Just to give you some figures you can see how fast nProbe,
a NetFlow v5/v9 probe,can go using PF_RING™,or have a look at the
tables below.
10 Gigabit tests performed on a Core2Duo 1.86 GHz and a low-end Xeon
2,5 Ghz