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Re: Diagnosing MySQL server has gone away messages
From: Dirk Geschke <Dirk_Geschke () genua de>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:41:04 +0200
Hi,
Can you explain what you mean by Snort "has to stop being an IDS"? If Snort is no longer an IDS when logging directly to a DB what is it?In order for Snort to do an insert, it has to stop being an IDS.
[...] that means, that during the time which is needed to insert an alert in the database (and there are several tables involved and consequently a lot of queries and inserts) snort won't be able to process new incoming packets. Of course, there is a buffer in the kernel/pcap library but at least you are on risk to miss some packets due to the time you spent on inserting the last alert. If in addition the access to the database is slow or gone away you will loose a lot of packets. Therefore it would be a good idea to decouple the output to a database from snort. You can use Unfied Output together with Barnyard to circumvent this problem. Or you can use FLoP, it works similar but skips the process of having to write to local files. Best regards Dirk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
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