Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Capturing 10GbE on a Linux laptop?
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From: Jasper Bongertz <jasper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 17:54:45 +0200
Hi Richard,

I know there are some USB-C 10G network adapters (and the ProfiShark 10G, of
course), but I haven't tested any of them. Writing that much data to disk is
something I do with small portable servers (about the size of a small shoe box)
with a FPGA based capture card.

Cheers,
Jasper

Sunday, August 2, 2020, 7:03:05 PM, you wrote:

> Hi folks,

> Last year using my Cubro EX2+ I managed to capture around 600MB/s on
> my Lenovo P51 laptop.

> My P51 has a Thunderbolt 3 interface and has two 1TB NVMe storage
> devices that are capable of 2+GBps write speeds.

> I was aggregating multiple 1GbE interfaces into one of the 10GbE
> interfaces and then using a 10GbE to Thunderbolt 3 adapter.

> I had two Windows laptops and two OSX 10 laptops driving the load and
> interestingly the Apple laptops were generating more load than the
> Windows laptops via SMB2.

> My question is: Is there a Linux laptop out there that can handle that
> load. I have looked at System 76 and Librem but it does not seem they
> are capable of handling the load.