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deri at ntop

Dec 15, 2010, 2:09 AM

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Re: transparent_mode=2

Sunjeet
in transparent_mode=2 your non-pfring application cannot see incoming
packets. As this does not happen, I believe that either the loaded
module not the one you expect, or pf_ring is not loaded.

please check in /proc/net/pf_ring/ and see what's happening

Luca

On 12/14/2010 02:25 AM, Sunjeet Singh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Linux, I installed the PF_RING module and the PF_RING aware ixgbe
> driver.
>
> When loading the pf_ring module with transparent_mode=2, I still find
> that my tcpdump (non pf_ring compatible) is able to capture packets.
> First it seemed like it could be a tcpdump-promiscuous-mode issue, but
> I can even ssh into that machine through the network interface. This
> suggests that packets are still reaching the kernel.
>
> I want my packets to bypass the kernel and go straight to my user
> application running atop PF_RING. Can you help identify where I'm wrong?
>
> I will great appreciate any help on this.
>
> Thank you,
> Sunjeet Singh
>

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