Re: Stream5 issue

[Emiliano Fausto <emiliano.fausto () gmail com>]

Hello Arun,

I've found more information about your second issue, maybe these articles
help.

Link: https://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/LibpcapFileFormat

It seems that you'll want to set the snaplen to the maximum size possible: "*A
captured packet in a capture file does not necessarily contain all the data
in the packet as it appeared on the network; the capture file might contain
at most the first N bytes of each packet, for some value of N. The value
of N, in such a capture, is called the "snapshot length" or "snaplen" of
the capture. N might be a value larger than the largest possible packet, to
ensure that no packet in the capture is "sliced" short; a value of 65535
will typically be used in this case.*"

Link:
http://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/detection/analysis-snort-data-acquisition-modules-34027

It says: "*Snort developers recommend setting the snap length to the
highest possible value since fragmented packets are defragmented before
being moved to the QUEUE (Snort Team, daq-0.6.2 README):*

*    config snaplen: 65535*


*Chris Murphy, chrismrph0 () gmail com <chrismrph0 () gmail com>*
*With this maximum value, Snort will be sure to see the entire packet.*"

Link:
http://taosecurity.blogspot.com.ar/2005/04/using-snorts-k-option-i-was-looking.html

In this issue, the problem was caused because of the snap-len and the "k"
option, which I see you have already setted, so it just validates you
should leave it in -k none, but probably won't solve your second issue.

In my opinion then, I think you are doing good in increasing the snaplen
size, since it's even necessary in most cases.

About the first problem I didn't try it, so I can't talk about it by now.
If I find something I'll let you know.

Hope it helps!
Emiliano.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Arun Koshal <akoshal04 () gmail com> wrote:

> Hi Emiliano,
>
> Thanks a lot for your inputs!!!
>
> I am facing the issue # 1 even after disabling NIC segmentation features.
> Please find below the output of the ethtool command:
> -bash-4.1# ethtool -k eth1
> Features for eth1:
> rx-checksumming: off
> tx-checksumming: off
> scatter-gather: off
> tcp-segmentation-offload: off
> udp-fragmentation-offload: off
> generic-segmentation-offload: off
> generic-receive-offload: off
> large-receive-offload: off
> rx-vlan-offload: on
> tx-vlan-offload: on
> ntuple-filters: off
> receive-hashing: off
>
> Please find below the stream5 configuration in my setup:
> preprocessor stream5_global: track_tcp yes, \
>    track_udp yes, \
>    track_icmp no, \
>    max_tcp 262144, \
>    max_udp 131072, \
>    max_active_responses 2, \
>    min_response_seconds 5
> preprocessor stream5_tcp: policy linux, detect_anomalies, require_3whs
> 180, \
>    overlap_limit 10, small_segments 3 bytes 150, timeout 180,
> max_queued_bytes 0, max_queued_segs 0,\
>     ports client 21 22 23 25 42 53 70 79 109 110 111 113 119 135 136 137
> 139 143 \
>         161 445 513 514 587 593 691 1433 1521 1741 2100 3306 6070 6633
> 6653 6665 6666 6667 6668 6669 \
>         7000 8181 32770 32771 32772 32773 32774 32775 32776 32777 32778
> 32779, \
>     ports both 36 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 110 311 383 443 465 563
> 555 591 593 631 636 801 808 818 901 972 989 992 993 994 995 1158 1220 1414
> 1533 1741 1830 1942 2231 2301 2381 2809 2980 3029 3037 3057 3128 3443 3702
> 4000 4343 4848 5000 5117 5250 5600 6080 6173 6988 7907 7000 7001 7071 7144
> 7145 7510 7802 7770 7777 7778 7779 \
>         7801 7900 7901 7902 7903 7904 7905 7906 7908 7909 7910 7911 7912
> 7913 7914 7915 7916 \
>         7917 7918 7919 7920 8000 8008 8014 8028 8080 8081 8082 8085 8088
> 8090 8118 8123 8180 8181 8222 8243 8280 8300 8333 8344 8500 8509 8800 8888
> 8899 8983 9000 9060 9080 9090 9091 9111 9290 9443 9999 10000 11371 12601
> 13014 15489 29991 33300 34412 34443 34444 41080 44449 50000 50002 51423
> 53331 55252 55555 56712
> preprocessor stream5_udp: timeout 180
>
> As mentioned earlier, I have Snort running in pcap mode, with following
> options:
> ./snort -A fast -b -d -k none -i eth1 --daq pcap --daq-var
> buffer_size=536870912 -u root -g root -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -l
> /var/log/snort -A unsock
>
> I am streaming the client side traffic only.
>
> Please let me know how should I debug this problem. The first issue has
> really become a bottleneck.
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Arun
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Emiliano Fausto <
> emiliano.fausto () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Hello Arun,
> >
> > I'd suggest you to read this article:
> > http://blog.securityonion.net/2011/10/when-is-full-packet-capture-not-full.html
> >
> > I had similar troubles too some time ago because of it.
> >
> > Also depending on what you are trying to capture, this option could also
> > be influencing the capture:
> >
> > -k *checksum-mode*
> >
> > Controls which packet checksums Snort computes and verifies. Valid
> > checksum modes include all, noip, notcp, noudp, noicmp, and none. This
> > can be used to eliminate packets that fail their checksums - caused either
> > by network faults or IDS evasion attempts
> >
> > Maybe if  your checksum is known to fail, you may  put: "-k none"
> >
> > Hope it helps!!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Emiliano.
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 1:34 AM, Arun Koshal <akoshal04 () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have written a dynamic preprocessor for inspecting some custom
> > > application. This dynamic preprocessor depends on stream5 preprocessor from
> > > getting the TCP stream. I am using snort in PCAP mode. I am facing
> > > following very strange problems -
> > >
> > > 1. The data in the rebuilt stream given by stream5 does not match with
> > > the TCP sequence number. For example - for a given TCP packet the sequence
> > > number in packet (pkt->tcp_header->sequence) is 507351850, but the data in
> > > pkt->payload is actually same as that of some old packet, having TCP
> > > sequence number 507343162. This scenario happens in case there are lot of
> > > packets getting dropped. I confirmed this with wireshark packet capture and
> > > I have observed multiple such instances. I also noticed that I am getting
> > > all the packets in the same buffer (pkt->payload remains same for all
> > > packets). So it seems like that I am getting a new packet with new header
> > > but old data. If I configure the pcap buffer_size as 512MB, the packets do
> > > not drop and this problem does not happen.
> > >
> > > 2. The second problem that I faced was with the pcap snap_len. In my
> > > setup, I had snort running with default pcap snap_len. I noticed that snort
> > > was not receiving packets having 1448 bytes data (1500 bytes, excluding
> > > Ethernet header). On reducing the MTU of the traffic generator from 1500 to
> > > 1484, Snort started receiving those packets. As a workaround, I increased
> > > the snap_len in sfdaq.c to 1546. Is this behaviour correct?
> > >
> > > It would be really great if someone can provide some inputs on these
> > > issues.
> > >
> > > Thanks and regards.
> > > Arun
> > >
> > >
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