Hi Alicia
after configuring RSS in your load_dna_driver.sh script, you should use dnaX@Y 
to open the rss queue Y on dnaX

Alfredo

On 12 Apr 2014, at 21:37, Alicia Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> Do you know of any good documentation I could use online on how to do #1?
> 
> I already tried to set RSS to 2 for the specific interface I needed another 
> queue on, but still resulted in the errors below.
> 
> Alicia S.
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> Hi Alicia
> standard pf_ring clustering is not supported by dna, and you cannot open the 
> same dna interface from multiple application.
> This means the you have 2 options:
> 1. use RSS and open a queue per snort instance
> 2. use the Libzero DNA Cluster (see pfdnacluster_master app in examples), and 
> open a consumer queue per snort instance
> 
> Best Regards
> Alfredo
> 
> On 12 Apr 2014, at 16:56, Alicia Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Good Morning!
>> 
>> So I am trying to use more than one snort process per interface, while I can 
>> tie a single snort process to a particular cpu, I can't seem to run multiple 
>> snort processes on a single interface and tie them to multiple cpu's with my 
>> current configuration.
>> 
>> If I attempt to use a "clusterid=" daq variable - I get the following:
>> Apr 12 14:42:53 DFW01-NIDS snort[3420]: pfring_dna DAQ configured to passive.
>> Apr 12 14:42:53 DFW01-NIDS snort[3420]: FATAL ERROR: Can't initialize DAQ 
>> pfring_dna (-1) - pfring_daq_initialize: unsupported 
>> variable(clusterid=2)#012
>> 
>> 
>> without the cluster variable in the startup script I get this error:
>> 
>> Apr 12 14:51:20 DFW01-NIDS snort[4981]: FATAL ERROR: Can't initialize DAQ 
>> pfring_dna (-1) -
>> Apr 12 14:51:20 DFW01-NIDS kernel: [PF_RING] Unable to activate two or more 
>> DNA sockets on the same interface dna1/link direction
>> 
>> 
>> Could someone please point me in the right direction? Was I supposed to 
>> compile with a certain option?
>> 
>> Thank you in advance!
>> 
>> Alicia S.
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