What are the CoralReef machine specs?
This section may not be up-to-date; it was written for OC-12 links. Specific values below may need to be increased for higher speed links, but the descriptions still contain useful information on the features you must consider. More specific information may be found in documentation for the monitor card you choose. A CoralReef monitor is just a PC computer with network cards that can listen to a type of network connection. The specs provided here reflect what we know to work. The hardware you choose must also be compatible with the type of UNIX you wish to use for running CoralReef (at the moment, drivers for FATM and POINT monitor cards only work under FreeBSD, and drivers for DAG cards work under Linux). We are likely to be able to support questions regarding these specifications, but unless the question is very general, we will not be able to answer questions regarding PC hardware. The machines which we use follow the following specs: • A high performance motherboard such as one of
