Instead of For each worker I have this: [nids-21a] type=worker host=10.142.148.21 interface=eth4 [nids-21b] type=worker host=10.142.148.21 interface=eth5 Try: For each worker I have this: [nids-21] type=worker host=10.142.148.21 interface=eth4 -Ieth5 If you node had motile nodes you can write a pcap filter to split the ip space into multiples of 2,4 or 8 and run 2, 4, or 8 instance on the node. This set up allow one bro instance to see by sides of the same flow and will allow you to take advanced of all the cpu on a node. Bill Jones -----Original Message----- From: bro-bounces(a)bro-ids.org [mailto:bro-bounces@bro-ids.org] On Behalf Of Dop Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 4:30 PM To: bro(a)bro-ids.org Subject: [Bro] multiple workers per cluster node Hopefully quick question. How would you go about configuring Bro cluster nodes to each run dual clients (one per input interface)? Ie, all of my systems have input sources on eth4 and eth5. Instead of bonding those together and running a single Bro thread on bond0, I'd rather have two. Something is getting super confused when I try to do it: For each worker I have this: [nids-21a] type=worker host=10.142.148.21 interface=eth4 [nids-21b] type=worker host=10.142.148.21 interface=eth5 [BroControl] > start starting manager ... starting proxy-1 ... starting nids-21a ... starting nids-21b ... starting nids-22a ... starting nids-22b ... starting nids-23a ... starting nids-23b ... starting nids-24a ... starting nids-24b ... (nids-22a still initializing) (nids-21b still initializing) (nids-23b still initializing) (nids-21a still initializing) What's strange is that it seems to fail unevenly. Fails totally on 21, partially on 22 and 23, but works on 24. It's always the same nodes failing. Thanks, -Dop _______________________________________________ Bro mailing list bro(a)bro-ids.org http://mailman.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/bro

Try name the works [worker-1] [worker-2] ... Bill Jones -----Original Message----- From: bro-bounces(a)bro-ids.org [mailto:bro-bounces@bro-ids.org] On Behalf Of Dop Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 4:30 PM To: bro(a)bro-ids.org Subject: [Bro] multiple workers per cluster node Hopefully quick question. How would you go about configuring Bro cluster nodes to each run dual clients (one per input interface)? Ie, all of my systems have input sources on eth4 and eth5. Instead of bonding those together and running a single Bro thread on bond0, I'd rather have two. Something is getting super confused when I try to do it: For each worker I have this: [nids-21a] type=worker host=10.142.148.21 interface=eth4 [nids-21b] type=worker host=10.142.148.21 interface=eth5 [BroControl] > start starting manager ... starting proxy-1 ... starting nids-21a ... starting nids-21b ... starting nids-22a ... starting nids-22b ... starting nids-23a ... starting nids-23b ... starting nids-24a ... starting nids-24b ... (nids-22a still initializing) (nids-21b still initializing) (nids-23b still initializing) (nids-21a still initializing) What's strange is that it seems to fail unevenly. Fails totally on 21, partially on 22 and 23, but works on 24. It's always the same nodes failing. Thanks, -Dop _______________________________________________ Bro mailing list bro(a)bro-ids.org http://mailman.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/bro