1) My goal is to store the traffic may be fore ever, and analyze it in the future for security related incidents detected by ids/ips.

Take a look at "Building a Time Machine for Efficient Recording and Retrieval of High-Volume Network Traffic" https://www.usenix.org/conference/imc-05/building-time-machine-efficient-rec... ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE