PF_RING (and web100) linux kernel

[carter at qosient.com]

So we were getting for argus about 900K packets/sec on the macs using the 10Gig Dag cards, so that would be a good number to shoot for.

Carter

Carter Bullard
QoSient LLC
150 E. 57th Street Suite 12D
New York, New York 10022
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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Van Epp <vanepp at sfu.ca>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:27:46 
To:carter at qosient.com
Cc:Argus <argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: [ARGUS] PF_RING (and web100) linux kernel

	No not yet :-). We are first going for stability (our last attempt on
my athelon machines tended to go out sideways without any comment requiring 
a hard reset). Perhaps next week I'll switch to the Westgrid fibre and get 
them to run it at a full gig (I expect it will do fine because the athelon
could keep up with 995 megs using jumbo frames and a 100 meg buffer in the 
ring). One of our projects is going to buy a gig DAG card and they are trying 
to swing a 10gig one instead. If we can borrow that we can try the Westgrid 10 
gig link and see how fast we can go. Should do quite good because the P510 is 
dual dual core CPUs for 4 way with 4 gigs of ram.
	I'll add the userland ring code to the ftp site a bit later tonite (we
expect that will also be needed to be useful). 

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada



On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 01:14:49AM +0000, carter at qosient.com wrote:
> Hey Peter,
> Any idea as to how many packets you can handle?
> Carter
> 
> Carter Bullard
> QoSient LLC
> 150 E. 57th Street Suite 12D
> New York, New York 10022
> +1 212 588-9133 Phone
> +1 212 588-9134 Fax  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Van Epp <vanepp at sfu.ca>
> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:16:53 
> To:argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: [ARGUS] PF_RING (and web100) linux kernel
> 
> 	Mike asked if I'd put up Lixin's Suse kernel with the ring buffer and
> web100 mods in it. I figured others may be interested too so it is available
> from ftp.sfu.ca in /pub/unix/argus/Suse_pf_ring_linux-2.6.16.13-4-web100_kernel.tar.gz
> 	There are probably bits missing (tcpdump for one if you are running on
> a 64 bit machine as we are) so if you tell me what else it needs I'll find it
> and put it up :-).  This kernel has been running on my Power 5 P510 machine 
> and argus3.0 for about a week now without problem. 
> 
> Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
> Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
>