Re: Building snort

[Todd Wease <twease () sourcefire com>]

Hello Jon,

This message is actually wrong:

"[**] [116:6:1] (snort_decoder) WARNING: IP dgm len > IP Hdr len! [**]"

It should read that the IP datagram length is greater than the pcap
captured length from the IP header on.

Also, you shouldn't see messages like that in a unified file and I'm not
sure any postprocessor would show the data that way.  Sounds like you're
just looking at a text alert file.

Are you specifying a snaplen to snort?  If so, remove it.  If not, try
logging in tcpdump mode and look at the resulting snort.log.<timestamp>
in Wireshark and see what those packets look like.

Todd

Jon Urionaguena wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am building a high speed IDS system trying to use pfring extensions, 
> with libpcap modified. I'm trying to work with unified output format.
>
> Kernel is built ok. New libpcap seems ok too.
>
> When I build snort (downloaded 2.7 and 2.8.1),  I try to make it static 
> building against the libpcap.a just generated. All I can see is that the 
> resulting binnary does not give any dependence (ldd) against any libpcap.
>
> So I launch it... But the unified file format it generates is wrong 
> because it´s full of messages of this kind:
>
> "[**] [116:6:1] (snort_decoder) WARNING: IP dgm len > IP Hdr len! [**]"
>
> Even if we have the option to avoid these messages in snort.conf. I 
> guess I get a message for each packet we receive... The logs get 
> enormous (50 Mbps link) and without any value.
>
> Any hint?? Any other data I should supply?
>
> On the other side, I have an old snort binnary linked to the modified 
> libpcap (that's what ldd says...) that seems to work ok (loads pfring on 
> startup and gives normal alerts), but I compiled it before we had the 
> pfring change (kernel and new libpcaps)??? It shouldn't work this way.
>
> Building snort is being a strange experience for me, because I get to 
> many issues I can not fully understand... The flags I try to pass to 
> configure script never seem to do anything... I'm turning crazy.
>
> Thanx in advance,


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