Bob
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On Sep 21, 2012, at 8:43 PM, Bob Bomar <[email protected]> wrote:

> I’m doing some testing currently with PF_RING + DNA.  And I had 2 questions 
> that I wanted to ask:
>  
> 1)      If we’re running the driver with 8 RSS queues, is it splitting the 
> traffic across those 8 queues, or only the ones that we’re listening to?  
> I.e, if we’ve got 8 queues and we’ve got snort running on 2 of them, are we 
> ignoring 75% of the traffic?

Yes, as RSS distributes packets to queues according to the hash,  you are 
ignoring 75% of the traffic.

> 2)      Can we, and if so how, get more than one application receiving the 
> same traffic?  So if we have snort listening on dna0@[0-7], can we also fire 
> up nprobe for dna0@[0-7] and have it see the same data?

This is available with standard pf_ring or with libzero for DNA (not with 
standard DNA). In the second case you need a custom "pfdnacluster_master" 
application for distributing/cloning traffic in zero-copy to nProbe and snort, 
and a custom DAQ-DNA compatible with libzero.

Best Regards
Alfredo

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