[Bro] Bro 2.0 packets dropped
Machiel van Veen
mvv at sentia.nl
Wed Feb 8 23:41:25 PST 2012
On Monday 06 February 2012 19:55:26 Seth Hall wrote:
> >> Oh, that brings up another question. What NICs are you using?
> >
> > Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2) PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz
> > driver: bnx2
> > version: 2.1.11
> > firmware-version: bc 4.6.0 ipms 1.6.0
>
> I usually recommend not using Broadcom nics for monitoring. At times with
> various broadcom nics I've run into weird problems so I tend to avoid
> them.
>
> .Seth
Sorry for replying so late, I was unexpectedly off-line for some time... I
tried all the suggestions yesterday and found the issue to be the Broadcom
NIC. The tap is on a Intel NIC now and dropped packages are at an acceptable
level.
bro: 1328772549.657147 recvd=22987443 dropped=9811 link=22997255
There have been no alerts regarding packet loss either. Thanks for you support
on this issue, back to clustering for me ;)
--
Machiel.
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