[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1363) Clustered AF_PACKET support

[Michal Purzynski (JIRA)]

    [ https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1363?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=22418#comment-22418 ] 

Michal Purzynski commented on BIT-1363:
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Yes, please remove the change and just leave the configurable buffer if you can.

Going through libpcap which might or might not work taught us to write a packet source plugin instead, which won't depend on anything and less code is always nice.

Always nice to learn something.

> Clustered AF_PACKET support
> ---------------------------
>
>                 Key: BIT-1363
>                 URL: https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1363
>             Project: Bro Issue Tracker
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Bro
>    Affects Versions: git/master
>            Reporter: Michal Purzynski
>            Assignee: Robin Sommer
>         Attachments: pcap.c
>
>
> Let's have a support for packet capture with the AF_PACKET sockets in multi worker configuration.
> Bro can use a single worker with af_packet, I have tested and it works, but having a direct support for multi-worker load balancing would allow to avoid the pf_ring for many deployments with the traffic level where DNA / ZC / Myricom / DAG is not required.



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