Hi Amir
could you provide a pcap and the commands (baed on our examples) to test what 
you are doing?

Thank you
Alfredo

> On 4 Jun 2017, at 10:45, Amir Kaduri <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a situation where not all of the received packets are counted
> as filtered, and I would like to better understand why.
> To better understand it, I've done a controlled experiment, where
> after the software hash filtering rule was added on a specific
> 5-tuple, I send exactly 5000 packets on the same 5-tuple. All packets
> received by the same ring.
> When I look at the ring info file, I see that "Sw Filt Hash Match"
> increases by 4955 exactly. (Its the same number whenever I repeat the
> experiment on the same filter). Which means 45 packets are not
> counted. No other statistics parameter can explain the missing 45
> packets, not in the ring info file (e.g. "Sw Filt Hash Miss") and not
> by using "ethtool -S" on the interface (although by using ethtool -S I
> see that all 5000 packets are definitely received to the NIC).
> When looking deeply into the replayed pcap, I see a high correlation
> between the number of missing packets (i.e. 45) and the number of
> packets that are "TCP Segment of a reassembled PDU" (by wireshark).
> My rss rehash set to 1.
> 
> Questions:
> 1. Any explanation for packets that are not counted by  "Sw Filt Hash
> Match" (and not by any other parameter)?
> 2. Does the "TCP Segment of a reassembled PDU" could explain it somehow?
> 3. Could it be a behavioral change compared to previous pf_ring
> versions (e.g. 6.0.3)?
> 
> Thanks,
> Amir
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