Re: OpenPcap() (doc typo)

[Gentoo-Wally <gentoowally () gmail com>]

FYI this was exactly the problem. Just wanted to post to note that
there is a typo in the 2.6.0 doc's in the config detection section...

– ac-sparebands Aho-Corasick Sparse-Banded (small memory, high performance)

Should probably be...

– ac-sparSebands Aho-Corasick Sparse-Banded (small memory, high performance)

Thx for the help,
Wally


On 6/20/06, Gentoo-Wally <gentoowally () gmail com> wrote:
> That is probably exactly what I'm looking for. Thx for the reminder.
>
> Wally
>
> On 6/20/06, Justin Heath <justin.heath () gmail com> wrote:
> > This was posted from Steve Sturges a little while back on snort-users:
> >
> >  "As noted in the RELEASE.NOTES, there was a change in the
> >  default pattern matching engine from Wu-Manber to standard
> >  Aho-Corasick which is faster but consumes more memory.
> >
> >  This effectively replaced an implicit config of
> >
> >  config detection: search-method mwm
> >
> >  with
> >
> >  config detection: search-method ac
> >
> >  The Aho-Corasick implementation in snort has a few different
> >  memory models, standard, full, banded, sparse, and sparse
> >  banded.  The sparse and spare-banded ones consume much less
> >  memory... To use them, add a snort.conf line, as desired,
> >  for example.  Wu-Manber is being deprecated in the next
> >  release.
> >
> >  config detection: search-method ac-sparsebands
> >
> >  There is also the lowmem method, which is slow, but uses
> >  very little memory."
> >
> >
> > On 6/20/06, Gentoo-Wally <gentoowally () gmail com> wrote:
> > > Thx. So do you think a jump from 25% usage in 2.4.5 to 90% usage in
> > > 2.6.0 on a machine with 1Gb ram should be expected?
> > >
> > > On 6/20/06, Joel Esler <joel.esler () sourcefire com > wrote:
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> > > > Snort 2.6 uses more memory than it's predecessors.  The OpenPcap msg you
> > > > saw is normal, it's just telling you that there is no IP assigned to the
> > > > sniffing interface (eth0).  Which, if you are using a promisc card
> > > > interface with no IP, is exactly what you want...
> > > >
> > > > Joel
> > > >
> > > > Gentoo-Wally wrote:
> > > > > I've started looking at snort 2.6.0 and have run into something
> > strange.
> > > > > Compile info:
> > > > > 1. gcc 4.1.1
> > > > > 2. ./configure --enable-dynamicplugin --enable-dependency-tracking
> > > > > --with-libpcap-includes=/usr/include/
> > > > > --with-libpcap-libraries=/usr/lib/
> > > > > 3. Have tried libpcap 0.9.4 and the current version of phil woods
> > libpcap
> > > > > 4. Gentoo Linux box
> > > > > 5. 'ifconfig eth0 up promisc' to bring the interface up
> > > > >
> > > > > No errors during ./configure && make && make install
> > > > >
> > > > > when I start snort it hangs for 15-30 seconds at...
> > > > >
> > > > > Initializing Network Interface eth0
> > > > > OpenPcap() device eth0 network lookup:
> > > > >         eth0: no IPv4 address assigned
> > > > > Decoding Ethernet on interface eth0
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm starting it like this..
> > > > >
> > > > > /usr/local/bin/snort -i eth0 -u snort -l /var/log/snort -c
> > > > > /usr/local/etc/snort/snort.conf
> > > > >
> > > > > also tried...
> > > > >
> > > > > /usr/local/bin/snort -i eth0 -l /var/log/snort -c
> > > > > /usr/local/etc/snort/snort.conf
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > At this point memory consumption sky rockets to 95% usage even with
> > > > > all preprocessors except flow turned off. After about 30 seconds it
> > > > > finishes initializing and appears to work correctly but at 95% memory
> > > > > consumption and swap usage begins kicking in.
> > > > >
> > > > > I googled the OpenPcap message but found nothing that seems relevant
> > > > > to my situation.
> > > > >
> > > > > I also have a snort 2.4.5 install on the same box. When it starts I do
> > > > > not see the OpenPcap message and it works flawlessly at around 18-24%
> > > > > mem usage with all preprocessors on.
> > > > >
> > > > > I also tried compiling 2.6.0 without the new dynamic preprocessors or
> > > > > the dep tracking and I still get the openpcap message and crazy mem
> > > > > usage.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any ideas?
> > > > >
> > > > > Wally
> > > > >
> > > > >
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