Re: Performance and rule tuning (linux)

[Phil Wood <cpw () lanl gov>]

Hi,

I maintain the version of the mmaped libpcap at:

  http://public.lanl.gov/cpw

There is some help on how to build the libpcap and an example
incantation which may fail, unless you have around 16 gigs of memory.  I
haven't spent the time on a nice algorithm to determine just how much
shared memory to steal for the duration.  I have a feeling that taking
too much at start up, may create problems later on, when other
applications need a shot.  You could run top on your machine or check
out /proc/meminfo over a period of time and look for fluctuations and
choose a PCAP_MEMORY value (in Kbytes) which
will not affect normal operations on your sensor.

You might want to 'rm -rf config' before running the bootstrap script.
Also, you may need to install the following:

  apt-get install libtool automake autoconf flex bison

Let me know how it goes.

On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 10:36 -0700, Jefferson, Shawn wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I have a couple of questions about performance and rule tuning.
>  
> Performance:
>  
> I’m seeing quite a bit of dropped packets on one of my sensors.
> Traffic is about 30-60 Mb/s.  From the reading I’ve done, it seems
> like the first thing is to make sure your variables are set in
> snort.conf, and probably the next is to move to mmaped pcap.  I’ve
> attempted to do both of these, however, I was wondering if snort is
> actually using the mmapped pcap or not. Is there any way to tell?
>  
> I did the following:
> - apt-get remove libpcap-dev
> - built the mmapped pcap
> - rebuilt snort
> - put PCAP_FRAMES=32768 in my script file that starts snort
>  
> There aren’t many “how-to” articles out there for doing this, and I
> hope I did everything right.
>  
> Rule Tuning:
>  
> Is the optimal way of tuning out false positives using suppress rules
> in threshold.conf ?  I am using oinkmaster to download new rules each
> day, so I’m assuming that commenting out rules won’t work.
>  
> Thanks!
> Shawn
>  
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