Re: Large Packet Drop with SNort-2.9.80 as compared to Snort-2.9.7.6

["Nageswara Rao A.V.K (navk)" <navk () cisco com>]

You did not provide “Packet I/O Totals:” for this test.
We have to compare that data.

I don’t think previous stats will applicable here.
Because the number of pkts are different here.

Best Regards,
-ANR

From: Dheeraj Gupta [mailto:dheeraj.gupta4 () gmail com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 5:16 PM
To: Nageswara Rao A.V.K (navk)
Cc: snort-devel () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-devel] Large Packet Drop with SNort-2.9.80 as compared to Snort-2.9.7.6

Hi,
I captured a large PCAP (6.6G ~9M packets) and analyzed it through both Snort-2.9.7.6 and 2.9.8.0 with almost identical 
configuration file (memcap etc.). Since SO rules for Snort-2.9.7.6 cannot be used with 2.9.8.0, so number of rules for 
2.9.8.0 was less (about 11k) as compared to 2.9.7.6 (12k).
Here is a summary of end of run stats
Snort-2.9.7.6
===============================================================================
Run time for packet processing was 547.131014 seconds
Snort processed 9220233 packets.
Snort ran for 0 days 0 hours 9 minutes 7 seconds
   Pkts/min:      1024470
   Pkts/sec:        16856
===============================================================================
Snort-2.9.8.0
===============================================================================
Run time for packet processing was 783.512468 seconds
Snort processed 9220233 packets.
Snort ran for 0 days 0 hours 13 minutes 3 seconds
   Pkts/min:       709248
   Pkts/sec:        11775
===============================================================================
snort.conf is attached

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Dheeraj Gupta <dheeraj.gupta4 () gmail com<mailto:dheeraj.gupta4 () gmail com>> wrote:
Hi,
The traffic is captured from a live interface, so it is not exactly same. However, it is from the same network and same 
network filter over a contiguous time range. So, characteristics of the trafic are broadly the same i.e. most of it is 
user browsing data. The reason I wrote this e-mail is because on a weekday, we have an average 100-150 Mbps on the wire 
and Snort-2.9.7.6 reported less losses (<10%). However, Snort-2.9.8.0 reported over 40% drops with comparable traffic 
load/pattern.
Snort logs do not have any additional entry apart from session pruned due to timeout/stale (same in both cases).
Regards,
Dheeraj

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Nageswara Rao A.V.K (navk) <navk () cisco com<mailto:navk () cisco com>> wrote:
Hi Dheeraj,
   We need more info to get in to conclusion.

Are you passing same traffic in both scenario’s??

Did you verify snort logs ??
You may know the reason for pkt drops.

We did not notice this problems in our observation.
More details may help us to analyze the problem.

Best Regards,
-ANR

From: Dheeraj Gupta [mailto:dheeraj.gupta4 () gmail com<mailto:dheeraj.gupta4 () gmail com>]
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 11:30 AM
To: snort-devel () lists sourceforge net<mailto:snort-devel () lists sourceforge net>
Subject: [Snort-devel] Large Packet Drop with SNort-2.9.80 as compared to Snort-2.9.7.6

Hi,
I just upgraded to Snort-2.9.8.0 from Snort-2.9.7.6. Before the upgrade one of my sensors showed (somewhat expected) 
packet drops. However, after the upgrade the packet drop increased significantly even though the number of rules 
decreased (as SO rules are not in use with 2.9.8.0). I am still using Snort-2.9.7.6 rulesets (as advised by you).
Here is a snip from my snort.stats file for 2.9.8.0

#time,pkt_drop_percent,wire_mbits_per_sec.realtime
1450068900,33.873,124.415
1450069200,23.718,121.253
1450069500,26.014,120.349
1450069800,26.368,120.821
1450070100,23.706,116.493
1450070400,21.039,121.363
For Snort-2.9.7.6, the snip is
#time,pkt_drop_percent,wire_mbits_per_sec.realtime
1450071180,0.000,79.159
1450071480,0.000,118.671
1450071780,2.146,132.186
1450072080,8.337,130.408

Looking at end-of-snort stats. This is for 2.9.8.0

Packet I/O Totals:
   Received:    804563792
   Analyzed:    388361098 ( 48.270%)
    Dropped:    298207658 ( 27.042%)
   Filtered:    415840607 ( 51.685%)
   Outstanding:       362087 (  0.045%)
   Injected:            0
And this is for 2.9.7.6

Packet I/O Totals:
   Received:     60969886
   Analyzed:     30035104 ( 49.262%)
    Dropped:       742645 (  1.203%)
   Filtered:     30927585 ( 50.726%)
   Outstanding:         7197 (  0.012%)
   Injected:            0
I have a longish BPF filter, so is the filtered count an indication of the amount of traffic which was filtered by that 
filter?
Also is dropped count a subset of analyzed count or received count? I ask this because it appears
received_count = analyzed + filtered
so dropped_count doesn't really fit in

Regards,
Dheeraj


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