System Requirements
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System Requirements

Please review the system requirements listed below and make sure that the machines you wish to use meet these requirements.  We expect that you can run NFR on machines with different operating systems or with less memory, we jus't can't be sure.

NFR

These requirements are for the machine on which you plan to run NFR.

Operating System and Platform
  • BSD/OS 3.0 on Intel
  • BSD/OS 3.1 on Intel
  • FreeBSD 2.2.1 on Intel
  • RedHat Linux 4.x on Intel
  • Slackware Linux 3.x on Intel
  • Solaris 2.5 on SPARC
Memory
  • 64 MB*
Hard Disk Space
  • 20 MB for software
  • 20 MB for temporary files during installation
  • 128 MB for swap space (at least twice as large as the amount of memory)
  • 2 GB for log files*
Other Hardware
  • A network interface card, supported by your operating system, for one of the following network types:
    • ethernet
    • fast ethernet
    • FDDI
Other Software
  • Apache Web Server Version 1.2
  • C compiler (ANSI-compatible)

* Your requirements will vary greatly depending on the amount of traffic on your network and the types of traffic you are recording.

GUI Access

These requirements are for the machine on which you plan to run the NFR GUI.  You can run the NFR GUI from the same machine on which you are running NFR, or from a different machine on your network.

Operating System and Platform
  • any operating system and platform that supports the browsers listed below
Other Hardware
  • screen resolution of at least 800x600
Web Browser
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02 or higher
  • Netscape Communicator 4.0 or higher
  • Netscape Navigator 3.01 or higher

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