On Thu 14 Jun 2007, Ruben Laban wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On Thursday 14 June 2007, Peter Nixon wrote: > > On Tue 12 Jun 2007, Ruben Laban wrote: > > > On Tuesday 12 June 2007, Ruben Laban wrote: > > > I am still researching further optimizations. PF_RING sounds promising > > > but since it requires a kernel rebuild I'd very much like to avoid > > > that road. Being able to run stock SuSE kernels surely has my > > > preference. Using libpcap-mmap seems to be way to go. I'll have to > > > investigate how I can install this version of libpcap alongside the > > > 'normal' libpcap and have only pmacctd use it (again to stay as close > > > as possible to a clean SuSE install). > > > > Hi Ruben > > > > I maintain the pmacct packages for SUSE (and some other distros) and run > > pmacct myself in production on SLES10. I would be happy to assist you in > > building (if possible) libpcap-mmap packages for SUSE. > > Do you have any experience with using 2 versions of libpcap alongside > eachother on the same machine by any chance? For me that would be a highly > prefered situation. Ideally I would only have pmacctd use libpcap-mmap and > other apps like tcpdump should just the shipped libpcap version. Then > again, now I think of it, I'll most likely be performing tcpdump on high > bandwidth interfaces as well, and thus would benefit from the use of > libpcap-mmap in that case. > > I already did take a brief look at libpcap-mmap in order to see if it > would be suitable for us. Though in its source package there seems to be > very little references in the documentation to the actual "mmap part" of > it. > > Though, either way, I am interested in giving libpcap-mmap a try. The spec > file shipped with it sure does need some tweaking in order to make a > proper x86_64 package from it (like hardcoded paths to /usr/lib/). If you > have a more 'universal' and SLES(9) oriented spec file handy, I'd be more > than glad to receive it. Hi Ruben
If you can send me a copy of whatever you have right now, I will have a look at it tonight and stick it up on the opensuse build servers. Cheers -- Peter Nixon http://www.peternixon.net/ PGP Key: http://www.peternixon.net/public.asc _______________________________________________ pmacct-discussion mailing list http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists
