[Oisf-users] [EXT] Re: Packet Fanout on CentOS 7?

Tue Nov 19 01:10:56 UTC 2019

Nah, any af_packet app will start even if the underlying hashing mechanism
is not configured correctly. You will just have a hidden packet loss ;)

Can you attach your suricata.yaml and the exact command line you start
Suricata with? It looks to me like problems with permissions.

As a bonus can you try strace -o out <your suricata command goes here> and
look for errors / access / permission messages in the resulting 'out' file?

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 1:44 PM Peter Manev <petermanev at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 2:51 PM Cloherty, Sean E <scloherty at mitre.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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  –
> >
> >
> >
>
> I've seen similar errs in a couple of situations:
> 1 - when there is another Suricata running on the same interface
> 2 - when using XDP (hw mode) with the wrong/not correct firmware
> version of the NIC
>
> From what I gather , it seems you don't have any the situation above
> (if I am not mistaken)
> Off note: For the cluster_qm part it is known that i40 can do the
> symmetric hashing with the specified low entropy key  for ixgbe i am
> not sure as i've seen both expected and unexpected results so ti is
> something that needs to be further checked.
> However there is  a bit more to that even if set up correct - it is
> traffic dependent in some cases as well - it's been tracked here
> https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2725
>
> I dont have that much experience with CentOS but will be curious to
> see if you have similar issue with CentOS 8
>
>
> > ##### NIC #####
> >
> >
> >
> > ### ens1f1
> >
> >
> >
> > ifconfig ens1f1 down
> >
> > ifconfig ens1f1 up
> >
> >
> >
> > /usr/sbin/ethtool -L ens1f1 combined 16
> >
> > /usr/sbin/ethtool -K ens1f1 rxhash on
> >
> > /usr/sbin/ethtool -K ens1f1 ntuple on
> >
> > /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
> >
> > /usr/sbin/ethtool -A ens1f1 rx off
> >
> > /usr/sbin/ethtool -C ens1f1 adaptive-rx off adaptive-tx off rx-usecs 125
> >
> > /usr/sbin/ethtool -G ens1f1 rx 1024
> >
> >
> >
> > for proto in tcp4 udp4 tcp6 udp6 ; do /usr/local/sbin/ethtool -N ens1f1
> rx-flow-hash $proto sdfn ; done
> >
> >
> >
> > ##### START #####
> >
> > LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib64/libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4" /usr/bin/suricata -c
> /etc/suricata/qm.yaml --af-packet=ens1f1 -vvv -D
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Peter Manev <petermanev at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2019 1:59 AM
> > To: Cloherty, Sean E <scloherty at mitre.org>
> > Cc: oisf-users at lists.openinfosecfoundation.org
> > Subject: [EXT] Re: [Oisf-users] Packet Fanout on CentOS 7?
> >
> >
> >
> > On 17 Nov 2019, at 02:46, Cloherty, Sean E <scloherty at mitre.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> >
> > 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) -
> >
> >
> >
> > RSS hash key:
> >
> >
> 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
> >
> > RSS hash function:
> >
> >     toeplitz: on
> >
> >     xor: off
> >
> >     crc32: off
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > When I start Suricata all the messages look good until it gets to AFP
> when it gives me the message –
> >
> >
> >
> > 7/11/2019 -- 14:10:43 - <Notice> - all 16 packet processing threads, 4
> management threads initialized, engine started.
> >
> > 7/11/2019 -- 14:10:43 - <Error> - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_AFP_CREATE(190)] -
> Couldn't set fanout mode, error Invalid argument
> >
> > 7/11/2019 -- 14:10:43 - <Error> - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_AFP_CREATE(190)] -
> Couldn't init AF_PACKET socket, fatal error
> >
> > 7/11/2019 -- 14:10:43 - <Error> - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_FATAL(171)] - thread
> W#01-ens1f1 failed
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I’ve never tried it CentOS 7 but would recommend trying  8.
> >
> > What NIC is that ? (think you mentioned Intel but wasn’t sure what
> driver/model)
> >
> >
> >
> > Just to be in the safe side - “-T” (test) run passes ok too? (And there
> are no other Suri running on the same interface ?)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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 ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> > Sean
> >
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>
> --
> Regards,
> Peter Manev
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