Re: Snort Process Forking

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

On Sep 11, 2012, at 8:34 AM, "Turnbough, Bradley E." <bturnbough () belcan com> wrote:

> Is it better to run one Snort process and monitor everything, or should I run XX processes (where XX is the number of 
> cores) and have each process analyze different bits of traffic?

I think the answer is "Can one Snort process handle all the traffic I'm throwing at it?"

If not, then yes, PF_RING is your answer as far as that is concerned.
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Joel Esler
Senior Research Engineer, VRT
OpenSource Community Manager
Sourcefire

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