Hi Jose
since kernel is bypassed with ZC, it is not possible to set kernel filters at 
all, thus no-kernel-filters is not needed.

Best Regards
Alfredo

> On 26 Jun 2015, at 04:17, Jose Vila <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Excuse me for reviving this thread.
> 
> I've been using Snort's DAQ module variable no-kernel-filters for a long
> time, but recently switched to pfring_zc and got this error:
> 
> FATAL ERROR: Can't initialize DAQ pfring_zc (-1) -
> pfring_zc_daq_initialize: unsupported variable(no-kernel-filters=1)#012
> 
> Why isn't this variable present on the ZC driver ? Am I missing something ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jose Vila.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Alfredo Cardigliano <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> Peter
>> the rules listed are kernel hash filters added by the DAQ module (you can
>> disable them with --daq-var no-kernel-filters)
>> every time snort emits a verdict, in order to reduce the amount of traffic
>> it has to analyze.
>> Those rules are automatically removed when idle for more than 5 minutes
>> (you can change the default with --daq-var
>> kernel-filters-idle-timeout=<seconds>)
>> 
>> Regards
>> Alfredo
>> 
>> On Jul 11, 2012, at 12:39 PM, Peter Bates wrote:
>> 
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>>> Hello again all
>>> 
>>> On 11/07/2012 10:46, Alfredo Cardigliano wrote:
>>>> the BPF filter is not counted as "Sw Filt. Rules" (this only
>>>> includes wildcard and hash rules)
>>> 
>>>> BPF Filtering      : Enabled # Sw Filt. Rules   : 17176 # Hw Filt.
>>>> Rules   : 0
>>> 
>>> Okay, so what are the 17176 rules listed?
>>> Is this the action of the clustering hashing the packets to the
>>> different instances?
>>> 
>>> - --
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