RE: Multiple Win32 occurances?

["Michael Steele" <michaels () winsnort com>]

This is on a windows box, and you are talking UNIX :-)

Cheers...

-Michael Steele
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net [mailto:snort-users-
> admin () lists sourceforge net] On Behalf Of Paul Schmehl
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 7:12 PM
> To: Rich Adamson; Snort Users Postings
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Multiple Win32 occurances?
>
> --On Tuesday, November 25, 2003 20:08:18 -0600 Rich Adamson
> <radamson () routers com> wrote:
>
> > > > Anyone tried to monitor two or more nic's from a single Win32 snort,
> > > > or, run two Win32 snort images (one on each nic)? Problems / issues?
> > > How about two snort instances on one nic?  I'm doing that with no
> > > problems.
> >
> > Cool... off to play...
>
> Well, if you're going to do that, here's a couple of learned lessons:
>
> 1) I created a symlink to the "real" snort binary and named it
> "snort_special".
> 2) I created "snort_special" conf files, ACID directory, start scripts,
> etc., etc.
> 3) I use the -R switch on the special instance so the two instances use
> separate PIDs.  Otherwise you'll have problems with disk usage "growing"
> uncontrollably, and the only way to correct it is to stop both instances
> and allow disk usage (according to df) to shrink back to normal size.
>
> Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
> Adjunct Information Security Officer
> The University of Texas at Dallas
> AVIEN Founding Member
> http://www.utdallas.edu
>
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