I bought a used PRO/1000 PT Quad NIC from eBay for $23 USD for some lab experimentation. Before buying, I noticed the listing had good pics with the YottaMark sticker. I looked up the YottaMark number and it indicated a genuine Intel card.
I received the card and both of my test systems couldn't find appropriate drivers for this card despite inbox support in Windows 8.1.
Just for yucks, I ran PCI-Z and noticed that instead of seeing the expected Intel PRO/1000 device, I found four entries indicating this was a CACE Technologies TurboCap 4 ethernet capture card.
If you've ever used Wireshark on Windows, you might recognize CACE Technlogies as the company that wrote the WinPcap software that Wireshark relies on for packet capture. Apparently they used to also sell a series of full-rate Gigabit Ethernet packet capture cards. CACE was bought by Riverbed a number of years ago and the capture cards apparently were discontinued about 5 years ago. This apparently was enough of a niche product that I can't find much info on these devices.
FWIW, the card I received looks just like a stock Intel card with no CACE/Riverbed markings. It matches the eBay pics perfectly so it wasn't a bait-and-switch.
Questions:
1) Has anyone ever heard of this product?
2) Was this product simply a re-purposed Intel card with custom firmware?
3) Is there any value in keeping this card? Apparently, the list price for this card in 2012 was $2,995???? However, I'm guessing today's CPUs would have no problems doing line-rate capture on any gigabit NICs.
I received the card and both of my test systems couldn't find appropriate drivers for this card despite inbox support in Windows 8.1.
Just for yucks, I ran PCI-Z and noticed that instead of seeing the expected Intel PRO/1000 device, I found four entries indicating this was a CACE Technologies TurboCap 4 ethernet capture card.
If you've ever used Wireshark on Windows, you might recognize CACE Technlogies as the company that wrote the WinPcap software that Wireshark relies on for packet capture. Apparently they used to also sell a series of full-rate Gigabit Ethernet packet capture cards. CACE was bought by Riverbed a number of years ago and the capture cards apparently were discontinued about 5 years ago. This apparently was enough of a niche product that I can't find much info on these devices.
FWIW, the card I received looks just like a stock Intel card with no CACE/Riverbed markings. It matches the eBay pics perfectly so it wasn't a bait-and-switch.
Questions:
1) Has anyone ever heard of this product?
2) Was this product simply a re-purposed Intel card with custom firmware?
3) Is there any value in keeping this card? Apparently, the list price for this card in 2012 was $2,995???? However, I'm guessing today's CPUs would have no problems doing line-rate capture on any gigabit NICs.