Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] What about the minimum spec - full stop??

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From: Malcolm Jackson <Malcolm.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 11:28:39 +0000
 Hi, 

   The chat about the minimum spec for a 100M line was interesting; till it 
got to the subject of dropped packets.

   Do you think that a Toshiba Satellite 310CDS with 200Mhz Pentium and 32M 
ram sufficient? It's currently running Win95. We've been offered it, used, 
and we intend to use it mostly for grabbing network traces on 10M LANs that 
have Gigabit backbone connections. Are we in danger of dropping packets here?

   Any thoughts/advice appreciated as we're just about to hand over the cash 
for these laptops and I'd hate to see us wasting our money.
 
  Cheers,

    Mal.

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