Hi Chandrika it seems your storage is not fast enough in reading the pcap files to keep up with the transmission rate.
Alfredo > On 17 Mar 2016, at 05:57, Chandrika Gautam <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Alfredo/Ntop team, > > I have been successfully able to pump the data at ~4-5Gbps using below > command - > /usr/local/bin/disk2n -m /home/list_of_pcap.txt -i zc:eth4 -I 1050 -O -g -C > 64 -b 2048 -c 1 -w 2 -S 3 -v > > I have 1 TB of data present in multiple pcap files , size ranging from 3-12 > GB and name of pcaps are given in > /home/list_of_pcap.txt. After executing 2 files of 4-5GB, it starts giving > the below errors continuously and pumping traffic intermittently. > > 09/Mar/2016 00:53:27 [disk2n.c:1594] WARNING: [sender] waiting.. (buffer > empty) > 09/Mar/2016 00:53:27 [disk2n.c:1594] WARNING: [sender] waiting.. (buffer > empty) > 09/Mar/2016 00:53:27 [disk2n.c:1594] WARNING: [sender] waiting.. (buffer > empty) > > Can you please help what am I missing here and please let me know if we need > to check something on server. > I have 12 GB RAM on rhel server. > > Regards, > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Alfredo Cardigliano <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> On 16 Feb 2016, at 07:44, Chandrika Gautam <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> We have collected terabytes of data in multiple pcap files using tcpdump >> utility. We want to replay it at the consistent transmit rate of ~4-10 Gbps. >> Is it possible with disk2n utility? > > Yes, you can specify a playlist of pcap files to replay using the > [--multiple-pcap-files|-m] <text file path> option, example: > > disk2n -i zc:eth1 -m playlist.txt -c 1 -w 2 -S 3 -g -b 2048 -C 4096 > > If the original capture rate is not the rate you want, you can change it by > using the [--inter-packet-time|-I] <nsec> option > >> At ntop site, prdouct description says "disk2n exploit the packet >> transmission acceleration offered by PF_RING DNA". Will it be working with >> ZC also >> because we have taken a license of PF_RINGZC last year? > > Yes it does work with ZC. > >> I am not able to find out the test binary for disk2n for PFRING version >> 6.2.0. Please help to get one for RHEL 6.5. >> Latest rpm taken from the link "http://packages.ntop.org/ >> <http://packages.ntop.org/>" is for PFRing version 6.3.0. > > You should install n2disk from the stable repository at > http://packages.ntop.org/centos-stable/ > <http://packages.ntop.org/centos-stable/> >> Can you help how to test on a particular interface with disn2n utility. > > Please refer to the n2disk user’s guide > http://www.ntop.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/n2disk-UsersGuide1.pdf > <http://www.ntop.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/n2disk-UsersGuide1.pdf> > Appendix A - Configuring a PF_RING Deb/RPM package > > Alfredo > >> >> >> Regards, >> Chandrika >> _______________________________________________ >> Ntop-misc mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc >> <http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc> > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop-misc mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc > <http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc> > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop-misc mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc
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