Re: Snort Packet Stats

[Ashley Thomas <athomas () unity ncsu edu>]

It is slightly out of sync but may i ask you this.
> From the stats that you've attached Snort seems to be dropping a lot
of packets ?
Is the traffic volume very high ?

or is it something that i've overlooked.

thanks
ashley



On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Matt Jonkman wrote:

> We're working on our own homegrown snort back-end and want to really
> concentrate on having detailed live and trending stats for each sensor.
>
> Is there a way to get the stats that snort dumps when you ^C a non-daemon
> instance when you are running as a daemon? If not is there another source of
> the running stats we can grab and trend?
>
> Thanks
>
> Matt
>
>
>
>
> I.E these stats:
>
> ============================================================================
> ===
> Snort analyzed 4444 out of 6034 packets, dropping 1590(26.351%) packets
>
> Breakdown by protocol:                Action Stats:
>     TCP: 2494       (41.332%)         ALERTS: 0
>     UDP: 108        (1.790%)          LOGGED: 0
>    ICMP: 0          (0.000%)          PASSED: 0
>     ARP: 0          (0.000%)
>    IPv6: 0          (0.000%)
>     IPX: 0          (0.000%)
>   OTHER: 102        (1.690%)
> DISCARD: 0          (0.000%)
> ============================================================================
> ===
> Fragmentation Stats:
> Fragmented IP Packets: 0          (0.000%)
>     Fragment Trackers: 0
>    Rebuilt IP Packets: 0
>    Frag elements used: 0
> Discarded(incomplete): 0
>    Discarded(timeout): 0
>   Frag2 memory faults: 0
> ============================================================================
> ===
> TCP Stream Reassembly Stats:
>         TCP Packets Used: 0          (0.000%)
>          Stream Trackers: 0
>           Stream flushes: 0
>            Segments used: 0
>    Stream4 Memory Faults: 0
> ============================================================================
> ===
> Snort received signal 2, exiting
>
>
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