[ILUG] minimal requirements for a Wireshark-only router netbook?

[Brendan Kehoe]

Brendan Kehoe wrote:
> We're in Maine for a trip and are using a satellite-based Internet
> connection to be online.  It's got a nasty bandwidth cap in place.  I'm
> looking to use a netbook running distro-du-jour to run Wineshark to be
> able to catch sudden traffic bleeding.

... or, as a friend pointed out, instead of a netbook perhaps a
cheap-ass laptop with some minimal processor speed N (400mhz? 200mhz?)
which would be able to do the work. :)

B