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how to create testing data files??
From: waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:35:03 -0400
how can we create data files and test rules without having to create pcaps? i've tried creating a file with some test strings in it and feeding it to snort via the various pcap reading methods but snort always whines "bad dump file format" and quits... the snort 2.8.6.1 manual specifically states, in section 1.7.2 at the bottom of page 16... [quote] Note that Snort will not try to determine whether the files under that directory are really pcap files or not. [/quote] that indicates that we can create a "text" file and feed it to snort... what am i missing?? i get the following output from snort... snort --pcap-file=ptest.txt [...] TCPDUMP file reading mode. Reading network traffic from "/home/user/pcaps/test" file. ERROR: Unable to open file "/home/user/pcaps/test" for readback: bad dump file format Fatal Error, Quitting.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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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- how to create testing data files?? waldo kitty (Aug 14)
- Re: how to create testing data files?? Rob MacGregor (Aug 14)
- Re: how to create testing data files?? waldo kitty (Aug 14)
- Re: how to create testing data files?? waldo kitty (Aug 14)
- Re: how to create testing data files?? Joel Esler (Aug 14)
- Re: how to create testing data files?? waldo kitty (Aug 14)
- Re: how to create testing data files?? Joel Esler (Aug 14)
- Re: how to create testing data files?? waldo kitty (Aug 14)
- Re: how to create testing data files?? Joel Esler (Aug 15)
- Re: how to create testing data files?? waldo kitty (Aug 17)
- Re: how to create testing data files?? Rob MacGregor (Aug 14)
- Re: how to create testing data files?? waldo kitty (Aug 14)