When you say "custom", how custom is it?  Is it a matter of taking the
existing examples and making small tweaks, or a major coding project?

As an alternative, if you're using DNA to access packet data, are
those packets rendered unavailable through other non-DNA means?  So if
you have one application using DNA with symmetric RSS, could you have
another application that's just using standard pf_ring and seeing the
same packets (albeit not as efficiently)?

Thanks,

-Joe

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Alfredo Cardigliano
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Bob
> please see inline
>
> 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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