Yes, both MSI-X and PCIE v3 are supported. I disabled HT because that is one of the only differences between the two boxes, the old machine has two E5-2609's which aren't HT capable, and the new machine has two E5-2660's which are.
Scott Finlon, CISSP GCIA ----------------------------------- Information Security Engineer The University of Scranton email : [email protected] phone : 570-941-6168 ----------------------------------- On 7/17/13 3:20 PM, "Ritter, Nicholas" <[email protected]> wrote: >Does the new box support MSI-X and/or PCIe v3? I would think that >disabling HT (as in HyperThreading) would be the last thing you would >want to do. > > >________________________________________ >From: [email protected] >[[email protected]] on behalf of Scott Finlon >[[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 1:52 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [Ntop-misc] PF_RING / DNA + Snort > >I am in the process of moving Snort from an older box to a new box. Both >are RHEL 6 x64, both with the same NICs. >I am using PF_RING/DNA to split traffic across CPU cores on the box, and >can verify using pf_count_multichanel that traffic is being split the way >it should be. > >I compiled Snort on the new box fresh, but copied the configs over. The >old box CPU is currently sitting around 10%, the new box has the cores >pegged at 99-100%. > >I disabled HT on the new box, but the CPU is still maxed. > >This looks like more of a Snort issue, not so much PF_RING, but I asked >over there and they aren't sure what might be the cause. Anyone have any >other ideas of what might be causing this to happen? > > >Scott Finlon, CISSP GCIA >----------------------------------- >Information Security Engineer >The University of Scranton >email : [email protected] >phone : 570-941-6168 >----------------------------------- > > > >_______________________________________________ >Ntop-misc mailing list >[email protected] >http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc >_______________________________________________ >Ntop-misc mailing list >[email protected] >http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc > _______________________________________________ Ntop-misc mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc
