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
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