Re: (no subject)

[Peter Bates <peter.bates () ucl ac uk>]

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Hello all

On 21/06/2012 17:49, Kungu Panda wrote:
> Not sure why anyone would need multiple instances of snort to
> achieve the same result.  In fact, it would seem to be wildly
> inefficient to run multiple instances of snort to inspect the same
> traffic.  Of course, you may have systems and cpu's to burn.

Oh, I'd agree 100% - but I have more than a Gig of traffic to inspect
on a 10G link and I'm needing a bit more horsepower.

I guess I should have said I'm mostly following:
http://www.metaflows.com/technology/10-gbps-pf_ring-2/

The NIC has 8 RX queues which PF_RING hashes to 8 CPU cores
- - as a result you have to run x instances of Snort.

- -- 
Peter Bates
Senior Computer Security Officer    Phone: +44(0)2076792049
Information Services Division       Internal Ext: 32049
University College London
London WC1E 6BT
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