I recommend you to disable CPU freq scaling for gain max performance (max frequency):
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echo performance | tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor |
You can use script irq_balance_manually.sh for irq balancing on heavy loaded networks.
Running tool without root permissions:
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useradd fastnetmon setcap cap_net_admin+eip fastnetmon su fastnetmon ./fastnetmon eth0,eth1 |
Please keep in mind when run tool on OpenVZ because without root permissions tool can’t get all VE ips and you should pass it explicitly.
Debugging flags.
DUMP_ALL_PACKETS will enable all packets dumping to /var/log/fastnetmon.log. It’s very useful for testing tool on non standard platforms.
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DUMP_ALL_PACKETS=yes ./fastnetmon |
If you want to dump only “other” (we could not detect direction for this packets) packets, please use: DUMP_OTHER_PACKETS.
Recommended configuration options for ixgbe Intel X540 driver (netmap mode):
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cat /etc/modprobe.d/ixgbe.conf options ixgbe IntMode=2,2 MQ=1,1 DCA=2,2 RSS=8,8 VMDQ=0,0 max_vfs=0,0 L2LBen=0,0 InterruptThrottleRate=1,1 FCoE=0,0 LRO=1,1 allow_unsupported_sfp=0,0 |
I got very big packet size (more than mtu) in attack log? In PF_RING this behaviour will be related with offload features of NIC. For Intel 82599 I recommend disable all offload:
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ethtool -K eth0 gro off gso off tso off |
How I can compile FastNetMon without PF_RING support?
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cmake .. -DDISABLE_PF_RING_SUPPORT=ON |
If you saw intel_idle in perf top with red higlihting you can disable it with following kernel params (more details you can find Performance_Tuning_Guide_for_Mellanox_Network_Adapters.pdf):
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intel_idle.max_cstate=0 processor.max_cstate=1 |
If you want build with clang:
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cmake -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/usr/bin/clang -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/usr/bin/clang++ .. |
If tou want build tool with debug info:
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cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug .. |
If you want speedup build process please build with ninja instead of make:
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apt-get install -y ninja-build cd build cmake -GNinja .. ninja |
Ninja use all CPUs for build process:
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1 [||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||100.0%] Tasks: 53, 103 thr, 64 kthr; 6 running 2 [||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||100.0%] Load average: 1.32 0.45 0.19 3 [||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||100.0%] Uptime: 1 day, 12:58:40 4 [||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||100.0%] |
Build script for reading Netflow (v5, v9, ipfix) data from pcap dump:
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cmake .. -DBUILD_PCAP_READER=ON |
Run pcap data:
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./fastnetmon_pcap_reader sflow dump.pcap ./fastnetmon_pcap_reader netflow dump.pcap |
How to run tests?
Compile and install Google Test Library:
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cd /usr/src/ wget https://googletest.googlecode.com/files/gtest-1.7.0.zip unzip gtest-1.7.0.zip cd gtest-1.7.0 mkdir build cd build cmake .. mkdir /opt/gtest mkdir /opt/gtest/lib cp -R ../include/ /opt/gtest/ cp libgtest_main.a libgtest.a /opt/gtest/lib/ |
Build and run tests:
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cmake -DBUILD_TESTS=ON .. ./fastnetmon_tests |
Build script for running packet capture plugins without analyzer backend:
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cmake .. -DBUILD_PLUGIN_RUNNER=ON |
Examples for different plugins (plugin name could be netflow, netmap, sflow, pfring, pcap):
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./fastnetmon_plugin_runner netflow |
How to collect data for debugging netflow:
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tcpdump -w /root/netflow_data.pcap -n 'udp dst port 2055' |
How to collect data for debugging sFLOW:
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tcpdump -w /root/sflow_data.pcap -n 'udp dst port 6343' |
Performance tuning:
Do not use short prefixes (lesser then /24)
Do not use extremely big prefixes (/8, /16) because memory consumption will be very big
How I can enable ZC support for PF_RING? Please install DNA/ZC drivers, load they and add interface name with zc prefix in config file (i.e. zc:eth3)
For development new code, please check .clang-format as code guide example.