[Oisf-users] Suricata at 10G, packet reassembly

Michał Purzyński michalpurzynski1 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 22:50:32 UTC 2017


I'm not sure statistics you see in netstat is relevant to afpacket at all. I'm pretty sure it's not.

> On Feb 1, 2017, at 1:14 PM, Peter Manev <petermanev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Collyer, Jeffrey W. (jwc3f)
> <jwc3f at virginia.edu> wrote:
>> Sure,
>> 
>> Some specs
>> 
>> Machine
>> Dell R430
>> 2x14 core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz
>> 35M L3 cache
>> 128G Ram
>> Intel X520 ethernet card
>> 
>> OS - Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
>> Kernel - 4.4.0-59-generic
>> Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express Linux Network Driver - version 4.4.6
>> 
>> Suricata seems to be using about 40.5G resident memory.
>> 
>> Last stat update -
>> 
>> The tcp.reassembly_memuse  appears to be enormous ?16Pb?.   Doesn’t seem
>> right.
>> 
> 
> Yes it does not look right....
> 
> Can you please share your stream and reassembly section from your
> suricata.yaml as well ?
> ( https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/repository/revisions/master/entry/suricata.yaml.in#L1197
> )
> 
>> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Date: 2/1/2017 -- 08:50:29 (uptime: 0d, 23h 31m 08s)
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Counter                                    | TM Name                   |
>> Value
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> capture.kernel_packets                     | Total                     |
>> 22604957367
>> capture.kernel_drops                       | Total                     |
>> 40166
>> decoder.pkts                               | Total                     |
>> 22605130865
>> decoder.bytes                              | Total                     |
>> 22092883178348
>> decoder.invalid                            | Total                     |
>> 4199422
>> decoder.ipv4                               | Total                     |
>> 22606546275
>> decoder.ipv6                               | Total                     |
>> 15489763
>> decoder.ethernet                           | Total                     |
>> 22605131052
>> decoder.tcp                                | Total                     |
>> 18070722539
>> decoder.udp                                | Total                     |
>> 4281815803
>> decoder.icmpv4                             | Total                     |
>> 22078766
>> decoder.icmpv6                             | Total                     |
>> 8290
>> decoder.ppp                                | Total                     |
>> 147901356
>> decoder.gre                                | Total                     |
>> 149364919
>> decoder.teredo                             | Total                     |
>> 15471659
>> decoder.avg_pkt_size                       | Total                     | 977
>> decoder.max_pkt_size                       | Total                     |
>> 16591
>> defrag.ipv4.fragments                      | Total                     | 3
>> defrag.ipv6.fragments                      | Total                     | 115
>> defrag.ipv6.reassembled                    | Total                     | 28
>> decoder.icmpv4.ipv4_trunc_pkt              | Total                     | 6
>> decoder.icmpv4.ipv4_unknown_ver            | Total                     | 451
>> decoder.tcp.hlen_too_small                 | Total                     |
>> 6276
>> decoder.tcp.invalid_optlen                 | Total                     | 230
>> decoder.tcp.opt_invalid_len                | Total                     | 608
>> decoder.udp.pkt_too_small                  | Total                     | 16
>> decoder.udp.hlen_invalid                   | Total                     |
>> 4191833
>> decoder.gre.version0_recur                 | Total                     | 1
>> decoder.gre.version1_flags                 | Total                     | 1
>> tcp.sessions                               | Total                     |
>> 252444206
>> tcp.ssn_memcap_drop                        | Total                     |
>> 42676
>> tcp.pseudo                                 | Total                     |
>> 10488865
>> tcp.invalid_checksum                       | Total                     |
>> 124112
>> tcp.syn                                    | Total                     |
>> 301974943
>> tcp.synack                                 | Total                     |
>> 117698991
>> tcp.rst                                    | Total                     |
>> 108761603
>> tcp.segment_memcap_drop                    | Total                     |
>> 1292430868
>> tcp.stream_depth_reached                   | Total                     |
>> 12508
>> tcp.reassembly_gap                         | Total                     |
>> 227951862
>> detect.alert                               | Total                     |
>> 2333041
>> app_layer.flow.http                        | Total                     |
>> 4769888
>> app_layer.tx.http                          | Total                     |
>> 11055214
>> app_layer.flow.smtp                        | Total                     | 1
>> app_layer.tx.smtp                          | Total                     |
>> 577624
>> app_layer.flow.tls                         | Total                     |
>> 8893548
>> app_layer.flow.ssh                         | Total                     |
>> 518339
>> app_layer.flow.smb                         | Total                     |
>> 34653
>> app_layer.flow.dcerpc_tcp                  | Total                     | 24
>> app_layer.flow.dns_tcp                     | Total                     |
>> 11861
>> app_layer.tx.dns_tcp                       | Total                     |
>> 4980
>> app_layer.flow.failed_tcp                  | Total                     |
>> 6015530
>> app_layer.flow.dcerpc_udp                  | Total                     |
>> 18464
>> app_layer.flow.dns_udp                     | Total                     |
>> 55013837
>> app_layer.tx.dns_udp                       | Total                     |
>> 18797149
>> app_layer.flow.failed_udp                  | Total                     |
>> 46908581
>> flow_mgr.closed_pruned                     | Total                     |
>> 77180292
>> flow_mgr.new_pruned                        | Total                     |
>> 348444456
>> flow_mgr.est_pruned                        | Total                     |
>> 35974852
>> flow.spare                                 | Total                     |
>> 12132
>> flow.emerg_mode_entered                    | Total                     |
>> 2417
>> flow.emerg_mode_over                       | Total                     |
>> 2417
>> flow.tcp_reuse                             | Total                     |
>> 336896
>> flow_mgr.flows_checked                     | Total                     |
>> 101564
>> flow_mgr.flows_notimeout                   | Total                     |
>> 99325
>> flow_mgr.flows_timeout                     | Total                     |
>> 2239
>> flow_mgr.flows_timeout_inuse               | Total                     | 30
>> flow_mgr.flows_removed                     | Total                     |
>> 2209
>> flow_mgr.rows_checked                      | Total                     |
>> 65536
>> flow_mgr.rows_skipped                      | Total                     |
>> 52198
>> flow_mgr.rows_maxlen                       | Total                     | 21
>> tcp.memuse                                 | Total                     |
>> 40454272
>> tcp.reassembly_memuse                      | Total                     |
>> 18446744073614294924
>> dns.memuse                                 | Total                     |
>> 16901536
>> dns.memcap_global                          | Total                     |
>> 78771302
>> http.memuse                                | Total                     |
>> 15319405
>> flow.memuse                                | Total                     |
>> 129957280
>> 
>> 
>> Jeffrey Collyer
>> Information Security Engineer
>> University of Virginia
>> 434-297-6317
>> 
>> On Feb 1, 2017, at 8:49 AM, Peter Manev <petermanev at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Collyer, Jeffrey W. (jwc3f)
>> <jwc3f at virginia.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> So I’ve followed the 10G tuning guide, to what looks like great success.
>> This is on a Intel X520 card with AF_PACKET and 1 RSS queue.   The traffic
>> load fluctuates between 4 and a peak of about 8 Gbps.
>> 
>> 
>> Out of curiosity what specs do you have  - for CPU/RAM/OS/kernel?
>> 
>> 
>> capture.kernel_packets                     | Total                     |
>> 22028847471
>> capture.kernel_drops                        | Total                     |
>> 40166
>> decoder.pkts                                     | Total
>> | 22028920807
>> 
>> 
>> Can you please paste the last (full section ) log update?
>> 
>> 
>> In digging around further, netstat -s show about 3% of packet reassemblies
>> failing.  Is this normal?  This is my first foray into 10G capture and I
>> don’t know what is normal at what level of diagnostic yet, and was hoping
>> someone with more experience could tell me if this was a problem or not.
>> 
>> I expanded the ipfrag_high_thresh kernel memory to try to allow more memory
>> for packet reassmembly in case that was a factor.
>> 
>> # expand ip_frag threshod to help packet reassembly
>> net.ipv4.ipfrag_high_thresh = 8388608
>> 
>> Ip:
>>   4509211 total packets received
>>   0 forwarded
>>   0 incoming packets discarded
>>   3351761 incoming packets delivered
>>   2369930 requests sent out
>>   121777 fragments dropped after timeout
>>   258550565 reassemblies required
>>   72996695 packets reassembled ok
>>   7823209 packet reassembles failed
>> 
>> Thanks for any advice.
>> Jeff
>> 
>> 
>> Jeffrey Collyer
>> Information Security Engineer
>> University of Virginia
>> 434-297-6317
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Peter Manev
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Peter Manev
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