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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>I have monitored the stats for my instance and you are correct, only one thread processing packets. <div>I've checked my other stand by sensor that has a different NIC and it is showing that other threads do process packets.</div><div><br></div><div>It seems that the problem is with ixgbe and load balancing doesnt work right. </div><div><br></div><div>Does anybody know how to change that?</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div>> To: oisf-users@lists.openinfosecfoundation.org<br>> From: lists@inliniac.net<br>> Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 17:24:43 +0100<br>> Subject: Re: [Oisf-users] Suricata with PF_RING and IXGBE<br>> <br>> On 29-02-16 15:52, Yasha Zislin wrote:<br>> > I have a weird problem. I have a bunch of sensors running in CentOS 6<br>> > with latest pf_ring and Suricata 2.1beta4.<br>> > Most of the sensors have HP fiber nics (10 gigs) for monitoring<br>> > interfaces but two of them have Intel 82599 (ixgbe).<br>> > One of these Intel sensors is active and the other is standby. Standby<br>> > barely has any traffic on monitored interface (about 400 packets a<br>> > minute which are all broadcast).<br>> > When I start suricata service on the standby, it is impossible to reload<br>> > rules or to stop it. On stop it eventually dies off with this message:<br>> > <Error> - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_FATAL(171)] - Engine unable to disable detect<br>> > thread - "RxPFReth21". Killing engine<br>> > <br>> > I've flipped the active and standby to check if the server/hardware is<br>> > the problem. The issue moved to the other server when it became standby.<br>> > <br>> > I've installed the latest Intel Driver. I've set everything on it as per<br>> > article:<br>> > http://pevma.blogspot.com/2013/12/suricata-and-grand-slam-of-open-source.html<br>> > <br>> > I've tried killing irqbalance and setting affinity. No luck.<br>> > I did however noticed that if i reduce number of threads to 1,<br>> > everything is working. But when it is more than one, the issue starts.<br>> > <br>> > Did anybody else have this issue with Intel cards and PF_RING???<br>> <br>> This looks a lot like this issue here:<br>> https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/1716<br>> <br>> The problem could be that some threads never get traffic.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> ---------------------------------------------<br>> Victor Julien<br>> http://www.inliniac.net/<br>> PGP: http://www.inliniac.net/victorjulien.asc<br>> ---------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Suricata IDS Users mailing list: oisf-users@openinfosecfoundation.org<br>> Site: http://suricata-ids.org | Support: http://suricata-ids.org/support/<br>> List: https://lists.openinfosecfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/oisf-users<br>> Suricata User Conference November 9-11 in Washington, DC: http://oisfevents.net<br></div></div> </div></body>
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