Hi Terry
first of all you can have a look at /proc/net/pf_ring/<sock>

Alfredo

On Aug 29, 2013, at 8:42 AM, Terry Rohmannan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Alfredo
> 
> Do you have an idea about why the packet loss is happening?
> I'm trying to understand where the packet loss is occuring, how can I monitor 
> the performance of the rules evaluation? i.e. monitor packets 
> dropped/matched/reflected etc...
> 
> regards,
> Terry
> 
> 
> 2013/8/28 Alfredo Cardigliano <[email protected]>
> Hi Terry
> unless you are using a cluster, wildcard rules are evaluated regardless of 
> the ring status (packet forwarding should happen even if the ring is full).
> However if you are not reading any packets from the ring, it is recommended 
> to set the default behaviour to drop.
> 
> Best Regards
> Alfredo
> 
> On Aug 28, 2013, at 4:44 PM, t f <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm writing a c school project, that uses pfring to bridge traffic 
> > according to certain ports and vlans. I'm simply defining wildcard rules 
> > for a few ranges of ports, and bridge all traffic that's matched in those 
> > ranges.
> >
> > I'm not using any plugin, only adding a few software rules. also, I'm not 
> > reading any packets from the ring, only going into a loop and letting the 
> > module implement the rules I gave it.
> >
> > pretty similar to pfbounce.
> >
> > I'm experiencing weird behaviour- under traffic of approx. 8000 pps (500 
> > mbps generated with pfsend), I can see that the ring fills up quickly and 
> > starts dropping packets (because I'm not reading from it..), and when I 
> > inject certain packets that are supposed to be bridged (using scapy) - they 
> > are not.
> > only some of them are bridged.
> >
> > should i attempt to read all packets, so they will enter the ring and the 
> > rules will apply to them?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Terry
> >
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