On Thursday 14 June 2007, Peter Nixon wrote: > 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
Hi Peter, I haven't attempted to create a proper spec file for libpcap-mmap yet. The reason is two-fold: 1. My spec-file-writing-skills are very limited. I'd have to do some reading up on how to make the current spec-file architecture independent. 2. Lack of time. Currently I'm having some issues with pmacct itself which I'm trying to resolve. I will however try to give it a shot. Upping my spec-file-writing-skills is something that has been on my to-do list for quite a while. Regards, Ruben Laban _______________________________________________ pmacct-discussion mailing list http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists
