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cardigliano authored Aug 26, 2024
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On Intel usually everything works just out of the box. However, depending on the
CPU, BIOS and kernel, it may happen to experience a similar issue on Intel CPUs.

The symptom consists of the application being unable to capture traffic or capture
empty packets. Example:
The symptom consists of the application being unable to capture traffic, capture
empty packets, or just being killed due to bad memory access. Examples:

.. code-block:: console
# pfcount -i zc:enp179s0f0 -v 1
[RX][if_index=0][hash=4294967295][00:00:00:00:00:00 -> 00:00:00:00:00:00] [eth_type=0x0000] [caplen=1536][len=65531][eth_offset=0][l3_offset=14][l4_offset=0][payload_offset=0]
[RX][if_index=0][hash=4294967295][00:00:00:00:00:00 -> 00:00:00:00:00:00] [eth_type=0x0000] [caplen=1536][len=65531][eth_offset=0][l3_offset=14][l4_offset=0][payload_offset=0]
.. code-block:: console
# pfcount -i zc:enp179s0f0 -v 1
Killed
It is also possible to verify this by looking at dmesg for IOMMU or DMAR related messages.
Example:

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