You cannot open the same device multiple time in zero-copy mode (i.e. using the 
“zc:” prefix),
in this case you need a fan-out process opening the device and forwarding the 
same packets to multiple applications (you can use zbalance_ipc for this).

Alfredo

On 31 Aug 2014, at 17:35, Ilya Gavrilov <[email protected]> wrote:

> Alfredo,
> 
> I have developed non-zc system where two processes working with one
> network interface independently using pfring_* API,
> and I want to migrate to pfring-zc.
> But if one process opens interface, other process can't open same
> device with error "Device or resource busy".
> 
> Can I use one network interface independently in two processes in zc mode?
> 
> Ilya.
> 
> 2014-08-31 18:36 GMT+04:00 Alfredo Cardigliano <[email protected]>:
>> Hi Ilya
>> if a process leaves a queue/cluster in an inconsistent state (i.e. it does 
>> not call pfring_zc_ipc_detach_*),
>> the queue cannot be resumed. Please note that this should be an exception 
>> and handled as such (restarting the cluster)
>> 
>> Alfredo
>> 
>> On 31 Aug 2014, at 16:28, Ilya Gavrilov <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> If process that uses pfring_zc_ipc_attach_queue (like zbounce_ipc)
>>> crashed (for example with 9 signal or OOM killer) and doesn't call
>>> pfring_zc_ipc_attach_queue at exit, next call
>>> pfring_zc_ipc_attach_queue in new process with same parameters will be
>>> failed.
>>> 
>>> I don't want to restart process which creates zc_ipc_queue,
>>> is there a way to reopen zc_ipc_queue after crash?
>>> 
>>> Ilya.
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