[Bro] Bro Cluster on RHEL Server 5-6

Will baxterw3232 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 09:29:55 PDT 2011


On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:37 AM, James J. Barlow <jbarlow at ncsa.illinois.edu
> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:18:53AM -0500, Will wrote:
> >
> >    Is/has anyone run a bro cluster on RHEL Server 5 or 6? Successfully?
> >    Are there any issues, concerns or significant performance differences
> to be
> >    aware of?
> >    Thanks!
>
> We have a 15 node cluster running on RHEL 6, as well as another standalone
> RHEL 6 box.  Have not seemed to experience any problems with the OS or
> install, and we are also running PF_RING on those hosts to optimize
> for the multi-cores.  I just wish I could say that our network
> aggregator/balancer hardware that we purchased worked as well. :/
>
> Thanks for the info! Is your aggregator/balancer appliance designed to do
load balancing based on session hashing and MAC re-writing? Or are you load
balancing based on protocol, etc. and using PF_RING to load balance among
nodes?

Will

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