Re: Multi-process Snort

[Marcos Rodriguez <marcos.e.rodriguez () gmail com>]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Pratik Narang
<pratik.cse.bits () gmail com>wrote:

> Could the Sourcefire guys or experienced users throw some light on
> scaling on Snort at high bandhwidths (order of GBps) by using a
> multi-core system (4/8/16 cores) and running Snort as a multi-process?
> Maybe someone could direct me to research papers or white papers...
Hi Pratik,

I would suggest Martin Holste's blog as a starting point:
http://ossectools.blogspot.com/2011/07/running-load-balanced-snort-in-pfring.html

It's a nice write-up and you can start experimenting quickly.   Hope this
helps!

marcos

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