Please note “dummy” is a special name for cento, in this case it runs an 
internal traffic generator able to 
simulate a capture interface producing synthetic traffic in order to test pure 
processing performance, in
essence the real interface is just ignored, please try renaming the interface 
(before running zbalance/cento) with:

ip link set dummy0 name myname0

Alfredo

> On 3 Oct 2016, at 19:07, Luca Deri <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> This looks like a bug. Please file an issue on 
> https://github.com/ntop/PF_RING/issues 
> <https://github.com/ntop/PF_RING/issues>
> 
> Luca
> 
>> On 3 Oct 2016, at 19:06, Jeremy Ashton <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Here is the deal.  If I configure zbalance_ipc listen on 4x interfaces
>> and then map those queues to dummy interfaces; Cento shows the
>> bandwidth 100x more than reality.  i.e. it shows 27.91Gbps whereas it
>> is actually ~279 Mbit/s.
>> 
>> pfcount on dummy0 interface:
>> $ sudo pfcount -i dummy0 -c 100
>> 
>> =========================
>> Absolute Stats: [152'733 pkts total][0 pkts dropped][0.0% dropped]
>> [152'733 pkts rcvd][108'744'822 bytes rcvd][50'907.23 pkt/sec][289.96 
>> Mbit/sec]
>> =========================
>> Actual Stats: [41'132 pkts rcvd][1'000.05 ms][41'129.73 pps][0.25 Gbps]
>> =========================
>> 
>> =========================
>> Absolute Stats: [189'340 pkts total][0 pkts dropped][0.0% dropped]
>> [189'340 pkts rcvd][134'926'703 bytes rcvd][47'331.02 pkt/sec][269.83 
>> Mbit/sec]
>> =========================
>> Actual Stats: [36'607 pkts rcvd][1'000.11 ms][36'602.82 pps][0.21 Gbps]
>> =========================
>> 
>> 
>> cento on dummy0 interface (should be 1/4 of total bandwidth):
>> $ sudo /usr/local/bin/zbalance_ipc -i
>> zc:<int1>,zc:<int2>,zc:<int3>,zc:<int4> -c10 -n4 -m1 -g0 -u
>> /mnt/hugepages/ -r 0:dummy0 -r 1:dummy1 -r 2:dummy2 -r 3:dummy3
>> $ sudo cento -i dummy0
>> 03/Oct/2016 16:58:26 [NetworkInterface.cpp:990] [dummy0] [12'458'091
>> pps/27.91 Gbps][29'412/0/0/512'000 act/exp/drop/max flows][0/0 RX/TX
>> pkt drops][0 TX pps]
>> 03/Oct/2016 16:58:27 [NetworkInterface.cpp:990] [dummy0] [12'447'559
>> pps/27.88 Gbps][29'412/0/0/512'000 act/exp/drop/max flows][0/0 RX/TX
>> pkt drops][0 TX pps]
>> 03/Oct/2016 16:58:28 [NetworkInterface.cpp:990] [dummy0] [12'753'627
>> pps/28.57 Gbps][29'412/0/0/512'000 act/exp/drop/max flows][0/0 RX/TX
>> pkt drops][0 TX pps]
>> 03/Oct/2016 16:58:29 [NetworkInterface.cpp:990] [dummy0] [12'385'380
>> pps/27.74 Gbps][29'412/0/0/512'000 act/exp/drop/max flows][0/0 RX/TX
>> pkt drops][0 TX pps]
>> 03/Oct/2016 16:58:30 [NetworkInterface.cpp:990] [dummy0] [12’261'717
>> pps/27.47 Gbps][29'412/0/0/512'000 act/exp/drop/max flows][0/0 RX/TX
>> pkt drops][0 TX pps]
>> 
>> cento on raw interface with zc:
>> $ sudo cento -i zc:<int1> -i zc:<int2> -i zc:<int3> -i zc:<int4> -g
>> 1,2,3,4 -C 100 -H
>> 03/Oct/2016 16:59:38 [NetworkInterface.cpp:990] [zc:<int1>] [0
>> pps/0.00 Gbps][3’966/0/0/512’000 act/exp/drop/max flows][137’492/0
>> RX/TX pkt drops][0 TX pps]
>> 03/Oct/2016 16:59:38 [NetworkInterface.cpp:990] [zc:<int2>] [0
>> pps/0.00 Gbps][1’960/0/0/512’000 act/exp/drop/max flows][34’004/0
>> RX/TX pkt drops][0 TX pps]
>> 03/Oct/2016 16:59:38 [NetworkInterface.cpp:990] [zc:<int3>] [0
>> pps/0.00 Gbps][9’583/0/0/512’000 act/exp/drop/max flows][125’445/0
>> RX/TX pkt drops][0 TX pps]
>> 03/Oct/2016 16:59:38 [NetworkInterface.cpp:990] [zc:<int4>] [0
>> pps/0.00 Gbps][1/0/0/512’000 act/exp/drop/max flows][0/0 RX/TX put
>> drops][0 TX pps]
>> 
>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Luca Deri <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> Jeremy,
>>> I annoy sure I understand. in essence you have attached cento to 
>>> zbalance_ipc queues, and the traffic rates are not correct? What you see 
>>> with pfcount instead?
>>> 
>>> This said, what do you want to do exactly? Perhaps use cento as 
>>> flow-generator and attach bro to it on balanced egress queues?
>>> 
>>> Regards luca
>>> 
>>>> On 3 Oct 2016, at 16:04, Jeremy Ashton <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> After following these instructions:
>>>> http://www.ntop.org/pf_ring/best-practices-for-using-bro_ids-with-pf_ring-zc-reliably/
>>>>  
>>>> <http://www.ntop.org/pf_ring/best-practices-for-using-bro_ids-with-pf_ring-zc-reliably/>
>>>> 
>>>> The actual command was like the following:
>>>> 
>>>> zbalance_ipc -i zc:<link1>,zc:<link2>,zc:<link3>,zc:<link4> -n 4 -m 1
>>>> -c 2 -r 0:dummy0 -r 1:dummy1 -r 2:dummy2 -r 3:dummy3
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I found it was reporting something like the following:
>>>> 
>>>> 27/Sep/2016 18:17:56 [NetworkInterface.cpp:990] [dummy0] [8'854'686
>>>> pps/19.83 Gbps][29'412/0/0/512'000 act/exp/drop/max flows][0/0 RX/TX
>>>> pkt drops][0 TX pps]
>>>> 
>>>> 27/Sep/2016 18:17:56 [NetworkInterface.cpp:990] [dummy1] [18’428'232
>>>> pps/41.28 Gbps][29'412/0/0/512'000 act/exp/drop/max flows][0/0 RX/TX
>>>> pkt drops][0 TX pps]
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> If I configure cento to listen to the interfaces directly, I see that
>>>> there is <5Gbit aggregate bandwidth.  Is there something strange with
>>>> the way cento attempts to listen to dummy interfaces?
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