Hi Luca and Alfredo,

I haven't heard back from you.  Any particular reason why I shouldn't
go ahead and push the current SVN to my users?

Thanks,
Doug

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Doug Burks <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is the current SVN considered stable enough that I can deploy it to my
> users?  Thoughts?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Doug
>
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Doug Burks <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Luca,
>>
>> Thanks for your quick reply!
>>
>> Yes, the code in SVN seems to fix the issue for me.  Here's some further 
>> detail:
>>
>> Our current stable packages work fine:
>> - Snort 2.9.4.6
>> - PF_RING 5.5.3 + patch for negative index causing fragments to be
>> dropped.  Should be roughly equivalent to PF_RING 5.6.0 release.  For
>> background info, reference this thread:
>> http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/private/ntop-misc/2013-June/003782.html
>>
>> Using this version of PF_RING 5.5.3/5.6.0, if I upgrade to Snort
>> 2.9.5.3, snort goes to 100% CPU usage and drops all packets:
>> Snort processed 0 packets.
>> Snort ran for 0 days 0 hours 1 minutes 31 seconds
>>    Pkts/min:            0
>>    Pkts/sec:            0
>> ===============================================================================
>> Packet I/O Totals:
>>    Received:            0
>>    Analyzed:            0 (  0.000%)
>>     Dropped:        11246 (100.000%)
>>
>> Seems similar to what's described in this thread:
>> http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/private/ntop-misc/2013-July/003855.html
>>
>> Looking at the date of Alfredo's conclusion to that thread, looks like
>> the Snort issue may have been fixed in r6616 -
>> trunk/PF_RING/userland/snort/pfring-daq-module?
>> http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/private/ntop-dev/2013-July/011004.html
>>
>> If I then upgrade to PF_RING 5.6.1 SVN, snort seems to work fine (CPU
>> usage is normal, packets are analyzed and alerts flowing).
>>
>> Is the current SVN considered stable enough that I can deploy it to my users?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Doug
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Luca Deri <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Doug,
>>> we're making big changes to DNA/libzero so the next release will be a major 
>>> release. Hence for us it's ok to release 5.6.1 before such release.
>>>
>>> Did you check that the code in SVN has really fixed the issue?
>>>
>>> Regards Luca
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 28, 2013, at 4:18 PM, Doug Burks <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm getting ready to build and deploy packages for Snort 2.9.5.3, but
>>>> it appears there is a bug when using Snort 2.9.5 and higher with the
>>>> current PF_RING 5.6.0 release.  Looking at ntop-dev and ntop-misc, it
>>>> appears this bug was fixed on 7/20 in the 5.6.1 development version.
>>>>
>>>> When do you expect to release 5.6.1?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
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