[Oisf-users] FreeBSD NETMAP guide

[Victor Julien]

The wiki would be a great place to start:
https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/wiki

On 10-03-16 13:29, Cloherty, Sean E wrote:
>  . . . and I can't be the only one hoping for the same for CentOS...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oisf-users [mailto:oisf-users-bounces at lists.openinfosecfoundation.org] On Behalf Of elof2 at sentor.se
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 06:48 AM
> To: oisf-users at lists.openinfosecfoundation.org
> Subject: [Oisf-users] FreeBSD NETMAP guide
> 
> Hi all, especially FreeBSD users.
> 
> In the docs directory there's an old textfile for FreeBSD 8.
> 
> I would greatly appreciate if the FreeBSD users merged together an updated textfile with hints, tips and tricks for FreeBSD 10.x/11.x, with the new NETMAP support.
> 
> 
> 
> Examples of topics I'd like:
> 
> What hardware (NICs) is known to work good?
> 
> rc.conf
> - give examples and explain that e.g. options "-lro" and "monitor" should be used (for IDS mode)
> 
> 
> What tweaks to put in /etc/sysctl.conf (and /boot/loader.conf???).
> - net.bpf.zerocopy_enable=1 ?
> - net.bpf.maxbufsize= huge numer? How large? 15% of total RAM?
> - kern.ipc.maxsockbuf? kern.threads.max_threads_per_proc? dev.ix.0.fc=0? 
> - etc
> 
> 
> What config/tweaks to put in suricata.yaml
> - specifically for NETMAP
> - Mapping CPUs to queues
> - recommended runmode
> - etc
> 
> 
> 
> If you people can feed me your thoughts and experiences, I'm happy to 
> put together a new textfile (FreeBSD.NETMAP.txt) for the docs dir.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> It's time to show the world that linux+PF-RING isn't the only way to go.
> 
> /Elof
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