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Re: Smb output


From: Frank Knobbe <frank () knobbe us>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:42:51 -0500

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 01:22, Nerijus Krukauskas wrote:
   Smb alerting would be soooo sloooow, that snort would start 
dropping packets very soon and very fast.

Is that really the case? Isn't the SMB alert just a single UDP packet?
If so, it would be comparable to a TCP reset packet. Does that slow
Snort down that much? Perhaps the SMB plugin just needs to be optimized
properly...

Regards,
Frank

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