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<p class="MsoNormal">The NIC is a 10G dual port Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01). The driver is ixgbe 5.6.3. I’ve attached the output in a text file. The script used to start it includes the following from the class
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<p class="MsoNormal">##### NIC #####<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">### ens1f1<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ifconfig ens1f1 down<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ifconfig ens1f1 up<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">/usr/sbin/ethtool -L ens1f1 combined 16<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">/usr/sbin/ethtool -K ens1f1 rxhash on<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">/usr/sbin/ethtool -K ens1f1 ntuple on<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">/usr/sbin/ethtool -X ens1f1 hkey 6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A equal 16<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">/usr/sbin/ethtool -A ens1f1 rx off<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">/usr/sbin/ethtool -C ens1f1 adaptive-rx off adaptive-tx off rx-usecs 125<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">/usr/sbin/ethtool -G ens1f1 rx 1024<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">for proto in tcp4 udp4 tcp6 udp6 ; do /usr/local/sbin/ethtool -N ens1f1 rx-flow-hash $proto sdfn ; done<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">##### START #####<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib64/libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4" /usr/bin/suricata -c /etc/suricata/qm.yaml --af-packet=ens1f1 -vvv -D<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Peter Manev <petermanev@gmail.com> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, November 17, 2019 1:59 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Cloherty, Sean E <scloherty@mitre.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> oisf-users@lists.openinfosecfoundation.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXT] Re: [Oisf-users] Packet Fanout on CentOS 7?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 17 Nov 2019, at 02:46, Cloherty, Sean E <<a href="mailto:scloherty@mitre.org">scloherty@mitre.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">After taking the Advanced Deployment and Architecture class I was fired up with ideas for improvements in my own environment. I want to use the cluster_qm mode and match worker/CPUs/RSS queues in CentOS 7. Has anyone been able to get
this working on CentOS 7 or should I start migrating to CentOS 8? The kernel is 3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7.x86_64, running Suricata 5.0.0 and I was able to set the hash key and the hash functions correctly (I think) -<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">RSS hash key:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">6d:5a:6d:5a:6d:5a:6d:5a:6d:5a:6d:5a:6d:5a:6d:5a:6d:5a:6d:5a:6d:5a:6d:5a:6d:5a:6d:5a:6d:5a:6d:5a:6d:5a:6d:5a:6d:5a:6d:5a<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RSS hash function:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> toeplitz: on<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> xor: off<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> crc32: off<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When I start Suricata all the messages look good until it gets to AFP when it gives me the message –<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">7/11/2019 -- 14:10:43 - <Notice> - all 16 packet processing threads, 4 management threads initialized, engine started.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">7/11/2019 -- 14:10:43 - <Error> - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_AFP_CREATE(190)] - Couldn't set fanout mode, error Invalid argument<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">7/11/2019 -- 14:10:43 - <Error> - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_AFP_CREATE(190)] - Couldn't init AF_PACKET socket, fatal error<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">7/11/2019 -- 14:10:43 - <Error> - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_FATAL(171)] - thread W#01-ens1f1 failed<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve never tried it CentOS 7 but would recommend trying 8.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What NIC is that ? (think you mentioned Intel but wasn’t sure what driver/model)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just to be in the safe side - “-T” (test) run passes ok too? (And there are no other Suri running on the same interface ?)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I did take a look at the test script “can-i-use-afpacket-fanout” but my sensors have no internet connection so I am not able to use it via GO. Is there another way to run this if I downloading it manually ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sean<o:p></o:p></p>
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