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2.6.1.2 is out, try that.
-Marty
On Dec 21, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Bryan Swann wrote:
> I'm running snort 2.6.1.1 and it is pretty buggy and just seems to die
> on a regular basis for no apparent reason. I did change the detection
> engine to ac-bnfa so that it would start much faster, but that is
> probably the most non-standard thing I have done.
>
> My snort process will sometimes die and other times it will simply
> stop
> sending alerts even though the process remains. I'm hoping the latest
> version addreses some of these issues. I'm not sure if that is the
> same
> problem you are having.
>
> 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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