[Snort-users] Scaling issue - faster to log to local SQL?

[James Affeld]

I have a Sun Ultra5 Sparc64 box to use as a snort box.  I'm running OpenBSD 3.3 on it.

I plan to log to mysql and run ACID to be able to see what's going on. 

As a general rule, is there more overhead logging across the net to an external mysql server?  mysql says it's optimized for linux, rather than openbsd, and I could keep that linux box on a private network with the ids console interface.   

This will be reviewing traffic on a 100 mbit net.  

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