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    Suricata inline mode occasionally drops all traffic for interface under load

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        You are almost certainly hitting a Netmap compatibility problem.  Could be the higher interrupt rates that come with higher traffic rates, but also could be other buffer-related problems.  Netmap on FreeBSD, and then Netmap on FreeBSD within Suricata, are both still maturing technologies.  Translated to plain English that means expect some bugs to still be present.

        I have tested Suricata inline mode with em0 virtual NICs on VMware Workstation VMs and it works, but I have not tried high traffic rates.  I don't really have a good way of simulating realistic loading in my simple home lab.  I have not tested Inline IPS Mode on ESXi virtual machines.

        Bill

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