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Re: [Snort-users] Segfault

To: ahester@galacticltd.com
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Segfault
From: Martin Roesch <roesch@sourcefire.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:51:21 -0500
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Can you read through the BUGS file and follow the instructions so we  
can have a little more to go on?  Thanks.

      -Marty

On Dec 21, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Andy Hester wrote:

> I have setup snort on my LAN following Andy Firman's setup guide  
> (Thanks
> Andy).  It is currently listening to a hub that is connected to a span
> port on my Cisco 4006.  I have also run it without the hub directly  
> into
> the span port.  (The hub is only there to allow for other network
> traffic monitoring such as Observer - apparently the 4006 will only
> allow 1 span port.)  Internal and External networks are both set to  
> any,
> as I want to analyze all traffic and I didn't see any references for
> settings for that.  Only thing missing at this point is Oinkmaster,
> which I haven't set up because I haven't got the thing to run for more
> than a day or so without giving a segfault.
>
> When snort segfaults, it gives no error messages that I can find.  I
> have run in the foreground to see if there were any consistent  
> issues ie
> rules etc at the time of the segfault, but I haven't found anything
> yet.  I have seen a couple of other people that have had the same
> problem apparently and 1 suggested changing rulesets, which I did.
> Still having segfaults.
>
> I'm not sure what to do from here with no error messages, etc.  Is  
> this
> an issue that has been definitively resolved?  I haven't been able to
> find a solution anywhere, only other people with the same questions.
> Any ideas or help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Andy
>
>
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