Expensive and crappy.  More than 1/2 the price of a dreamcast.  Hopefully they'll
be able to lower the price so we can get a full working NetBSD workstation for
$130.  $99DC+$30ethernet
Jason

Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:32:00PM +0100, Julien Cabessut wrote:
>
>  > I don't know if I'm posting to this list the supposed way, please forgive me
>  > if I made a mistake... A question poped up in my mind while browsing
>  > Securityfocus... why not use the DC as a network analyzer, sniffer, password
>  > cracker, intrusion detection system ? I mean, with the huge amount of
>  > existing tools in NetBSD to perform such tasks, the software side is no
>  > issue. Do you think the Dreamcast cpu (and maybe, that vector-crunching-one
>  > by its side), has the power it needs to perform such tasks ? The necessary
>  > amount of RAM ? Uh, something I'm suddenly aware of : where to put the logs ?
>  > (those poor VMUs are gonna blow if used for this purpose !)
>
> The problem is that the Ethernet interface on the DC isn't exactly
> a high-performance piece of hardware.  It's a crappy Ethernet chip
> connected to a small SRAM buffer, which is too small to sniff an
> entire network's worth of traffic.
>
> --
>         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>