Hi Peter, On Thursday 14 June 2007, Peter Nixon wrote: > On Tue 12 Jun 2007, Ruben Laban wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 June 2007, Ruben Laban wrote: > > I am still researching further optimizations. PF_RING sounds promising > > but since it requires a kernel rebuild I'd very much like to avoid that > > road. Being able to run stock SuSE kernels surely has my preference. > > Using libpcap-mmap seems to be way to go. I'll have to investigate how I > > can install this version of libpcap alongside the 'normal' libpcap and > > have only pmacctd use it (again to stay as close as possible to a clean > > SuSE install). > > Hi Ruben > > I maintain the pmacct packages for SUSE (and some other distros) and run > pmacct myself in production on SLES10. I would be happy to assist you in > building (if possible) libpcap-mmap packages for SUSE.
Do you have any experience with using 2 versions of libpcap alongside eachother on the same machine by any chance? For me that would be a highly prefered situation. Ideally I would only have pmacctd use libpcap-mmap and other apps like tcpdump should just the shipped libpcap version. Then again, now I think of it, I'll most likely be performing tcpdump on high bandwidth interfaces as well, and thus would benefit from the use of libpcap-mmap in that case. I already did take a brief look at libpcap-mmap in order to see if it would be suitable for us. Though in its source package there seems to be very little references in the documentation to the actual "mmap part" of it. Though, either way, I am interested in giving libpcap-mmap a try. The spec file shipped with it sure does need some tweaking in order to make a proper x86_64 package from it (like hardcoded paths to /usr/lib/). If you have a more 'universal' and SLES(9) oriented spec file handy, I'd be more than glad to receive it. Thanks in advance. Kind regards, -- Ruben Laban Systems and Network Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISM eCompany Van Nelleweg 1 Postbus 13043 3004 HA Rotterdam +31 (0)10 243 6000 (tel) +31 (0)10 243 6066 (fax) www.ism.nl Quality Solutions - Reliable Partner _______________________________________________ pmacct-discussion mailing list http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists
