Alessandro
actually in order to correctly distribute fragmented traffic among cluster 
instances you need to set enable_ip_defrag=1 or to use 
cluster_per_flow_2_tuple, probably we will change the default cluster type to 
the latter.

Regards
Alfredo

On Mar 15, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Alessandro Guido wrote:

> If I understand correctly, PF_RING calculates a hash (which is the same in 
> both directions of the flow) using packet header informations to distribute 
> software among subscribers in a pfring cluster if "cluster_per_flow" mode is 
> selected, like the pfring snort DAQ does. However, in case of fragmented 
> traffic, some fields like source & destination ports are present only in the 
> packet that contains the lvl4 header.
> 
> So, is enable_ip_defrag=1 needed to correctly distribute flows among cluster 
> instances in the case of fragmented traffic?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alessandro.
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