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Re: [Snort-users] Reducing snort binary size

To: malvika joshi <tech.bojo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Reducing snort binary size
From: "Michael W. Cocke" <cocke@catherders.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:46:03 -0500
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malvika joshi wrote:
> I have compiled snort_inline version 2.4.5a and the size of snort_inline 
> binary comes to be 1844485 as given by ls -l.I need to reduce the size 
> of this binary.When I do an ldd on snort_inline it also lists 
> libpcap,but libpcap is not needed for snort_inline as far as I 
> know.Please help me out.

I think you'll find that you do indeed need libpcap...  Take a look at 
the libpcap page -

libpcap is a system-independent interface for user-level packet capture. 
libpcap provides a portable framework for low-level network monitoring. 
Applications include network statistics collection, security monitoring, 
network debugging, etc.

Mike-

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