On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:34 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> I downloaded and compiled the netsniff-ng. The replay works perfectly for 10G 
> and 1G rates, well above other open source softwares. I have achieved around 
> close to 2.6 Mpps with 512 byte packets and close to 5Mpps in 10G Intel Ixgbe 
> card.

Thanks for using netsniff-ng!

> I have a few queries:
>
> 1) In the code for netnsiff-ng, it expects bpf filter which is applied on the 
> Pcap file. Can I instead apply the filter on the TxRing ie. the Intel NIC 
> card? So that multiple TxRings can have multiple filters.
>
> eg. eth1#SrcPort=1233-1244
>       eth2#IPSrc=1.2.3.4/16 etc.

In netsniff-ng's replay, the BPF filter is run from userspace since it
only exists in the Linux kernel for ingress packets. You can do the
following alternative: Run multiple replay instances in parallel on
bound to different devices (--dev) and with different filters
(--filter). This should do the same trick.

> 2) One more requirement is that, is it possible to get a bpf filter from 
> command line in a human readable format like SrcPort like the one in 
> tcpreplay ?

Tobias is working on that. Indeed, until now we only have a low-level
compiler for a filter, but we're working on a higher-level language
for easier usage. What you could so for the moment as a workaround is
to abuse tcpdump for this. "tcpdump -dd <filter>" will output you some
BPF opcodes that you can store in a file and then pass to netsniff-ng
as --filter.

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