Re: snort inline with jumbo frame

[Jack <kingofnerds () gmail com>]

It may be a problem with the network interfaces in your snort box not
supporting that size of jumbo frames. Even if snort supports the frames, if
they are too big for the interfaces, then they will be dropped

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 11:27 PM, 王聲浩(Sheng-Hao Wang) <lounge_sam () hotmail com
> wrote:

>   Hi all,
>
>  I am trying to run snort inline with jumbo frame traffic, the size of
> packet could raise to 65524.
> But I face a weird phenomenon, when I enable jumbo frame, the throughput
> with snort inline decreases to very low.
>
> Here is my test result:
>
>
> jumbo frame baseline
>
> 525Mbps
>
> jumbo frame with snort inline
>
> 4Mbps
>
> MTU 1500 baseline
>
> 48Mbps
>
> MTU 1500 with snort inline
>
> 37Mbps
>
> My snort version is 2.9.2.3 and I use command "snort -N -d --daq nfq -Q -c
> /etc/snort/snort.conf".
>
> I have tried the solution of
> http://blog.inliniac.net/2008/01/23/improving-snort_inlines-nfq-performance
> But it doesn't work.
>
> Does anyone have any idea? Thanks.
>
> Sam
>
>
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