From: Eric Leblond <eric@regit.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 19:26:32 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: yaml: document the threads setting in pcap section.
X-Git-Tag: suricata-1.4beta3~35
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e744760613f9cba4a19b7dd520341fe6091b3634;p=thirdparty%2Fsuricata.git

yaml: document the threads setting in pcap section.
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diff --git a/suricata.yaml.in b/suricata.yaml.in
index 57e93e3323..97f4fc1d71 100644
--- a/suricata.yaml.in
+++ b/suricata.yaml.in
@@ -672,6 +672,11 @@ pcap:
     #  checksum off-loading is used. (default)
     # Warning: 'checksum-validation' must be set to yes to have any validation
     #checksum-checks: auto
+    # With some accelerator cards using a modified libpcap (like myricom), you
+    # may want to have the same number of capture threads as the number of capture
+    # rings. In this case, set up the threads variable to N to start N threads
+    # listening on the same interface.
+    #threads: 16
 
 # For FreeBSD ipfw(8) divert(4) support.
 # Please make sure you have ipfw_load="YES" and ipdivert_load="YES"