[Bro] Checking symmetric traffic using bro

[Zhi-Wei Lu]

Hi Bro experts,

We are newbie of bro and  are in the process of testing a bro setup using Arista 7150 to split traffic using symmetric hashing, sending them to bro cluster. Could bro tell how well the symmetric hashing mechanism is working? What log files/stats shall we look at to discern this information?

Justin at bro IRC channel suggested this script
https://gist.github.com/JustinAzoff/446d0abba2c6dd8ff242#file-conn-peer-bro

This adds peer (worker-x-y) information at the end of conn.log lines, in our case, we have a single bro server with 10 bro workers running on it, this would tell how well bro divide the traffic it received and send to individual workers, is that right?

What I am interested in is whether the Arista 7150 split traffic properly so that bro downstream could tell how well or bad traffic was split on Arista?  Is that possible?

Thank you very much and have a nice weekend.

Zhi-Wei Lu
IET-CR-Network Operations Center
University of California, Davis
(530) 752-0155

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