Google isnt helping me much. Anyone know of a laptop that exists with any 10 gig cards?

5/18/2011 11:50:18 AM

are we talking 10 gigabit ethernet connections?

5/18/2011 11:56:04 AM

Out of curiosity, what do you need a 10 Gb card on a laptop for? Also, don't thunderbolt ports on the MacBook Pros qualify?

5/18/2011 11:59:01 AM

There are no drives in existence to handle that much data for more than a few seconds. Also, I thought 10GbE connections were compatible with standard 10/100/1000 connections.


LOL, according to tests at Toms hardware you'd need a 12 drive SSD RAID0 array of some of the fastest SSD's made to handle just reading that much data. Not to mention a controller than can handle that many bits.

[Edited on May 18, 2011 at 12:08 PM. Reason : lawl]

5/18/2011 12:01:03 PM

I take it you want to use it as a sniffer?

5/18/2011 12:23:48 PM

^that's what i was assuming

in which case, what the hell are you planning on writing the data to? haha

5/18/2011 12:41:01 PM

Did a little digging, there's no laptop solution currently available for this.

Now, if the port in question that you're trying to sniff traffic on is underutilized-- which is pretty typical, you could mirror a 10G port to a 1G port and sniff there. I don't know what device you have, but it's definitely possible on a 6500 or Nexus switch. If you're exceeding 1G at all, this obviously won't work.

Another option is that if you're after a specific stream, you can use VACL capture to essentially filter at the switch(still assuming a cisco switch here, not sure what you're working with).

[Edited on May 18, 2011 at 2:00 PM. Reason : .]

5/18/2011 2:00:29 PM

Thanks for all the researching. We have various needs for this, but looks like we'll have to wait a bit longer. Thanks, all.

5/19/2011 10:22:50 AM

http://www.magma.com/expressbox1.asp

5/26/2011 9:38:14 PM

if you have a giant pile of cash laying around you can always get a Finisar box

5/27/2011 9:57:29 AM

^^thats awesome.

5/27/2011 11:35:27 AM