Thanks, Alfredo.  I had already packaged 5.6.1 from SVN on 8/28.
Looks like that should be equivalent to the final 5.6.1 release.  Can
you confirm?

Thanks,
Doug

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Alfredo Cardigliano
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Doug
> sorry we forgot to inform you, pf_ring 5.6.1 is out
>
> Alfredo
>
> On Sep 2, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Doug Burks <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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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