Hi Alfredo Do you have an idea about why the packet loss is happening? I'm trying to understand where the packet loss is occuring, how can I monitor the performance of the rules evaluation? i.e. monitor packets dropped/matched/reflected etc...
regards, Terry 2013/8/28 Alfredo Cardigliano <[email protected]> > Hi Terry > unless you are using a cluster, wildcard rules are evaluated regardless of > the ring status (packet forwarding should happen even if the ring is full). > However if you are not reading any packets from the ring, it is > recommended to set the default behaviour to drop. > > Best Regards > Alfredo > > On Aug 28, 2013, at 4:44 PM, t f <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm writing a c school project, that uses pfring to bridge traffic > according to certain ports and vlans. I'm simply defining wildcard rules > for a few ranges of ports, and bridge all traffic that's matched in those > ranges. > > > > I'm not using any plugin, only adding a few software rules. also, I'm > not reading any packets from the ring, only going into a loop and letting > the module implement the rules I gave it. > > > > pretty similar to pfbounce. > > > > I'm experiencing weird behaviour- under traffic of approx. 8000 pps (500 > mbps generated with pfsend), I can see that the ring fills up quickly and > starts dropping packets (because I'm not reading from it..), and when I > inject certain packets that are supposed to be bridged (using scapy) - they > are not. > > only some of them are bridged. > > > > should i attempt to read all packets, so they will enter the ring and > the rules will apply to them? > > > > thanks, > > Terry > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ntop-misc mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop-misc mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc >
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