RE: How do I balance bandwidth over several virtual NICs?

2014-09-22 Thread Elof Ofel
> The last step requires that you have snort use netmap rather than just > straight bpf - or maybe somehow there's a way to glue bpf into a > single netmap ring. > > I haven't wrapped all of this up and thrown it into FreeBSD-HEAD yet, > but i know that a symmetric RSS

RE: How do I balance bandwidth over several virtual NICs?

2014-09-22 Thread Elof Ofel
ebsd.org > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Elof Ofel wrote: > > I have a single NIC, mon0, that constantly receive 800 Mbps of mirrored > > traffic. > > I want to split these 800 Mbps into smaller chunks and feed them to a > > couple of virtual interfaces. &g

How do I balance bandwidth over several virtual NICs?

2014-09-22 Thread Elof Ofel
I have a single NIC, mon0, that constantly receive 800 Mbps of mirrored traffic. I want to split these 800 Mbps into smaller chunks and feed them to a couple of virtual interfaces. Each virtual interface can then have instance of 'snort' inspecting its traffic. Say approximately 200 Mbps per inte