Re: [Stats] Get dropped packets count while snort runing (/proc/xxxx search)

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

You can issue the USR1 command to Snort.

Kill -usr1 (pidof snort) will dump the stats of the running Snort process to the output file (on redhat/fedora, 
/var/log/messages)

J

On Dec 13, 2011, at 8:10 AM, Thibault - Gonfreecs - wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I need to get the amount of packet which have been dropped by snort.
>
> I can get this when runing manualy snort (snort -n 100 -i eth0) in the stat summary after stoping snort (CTRL+C) like 
> this :
>
> .....
> ===============================================================================
> Packet I/O Totals:
>    Received:          100
>    Analyzed:          100 (100.000%)
>     Dropped:            0 (  0.000%)
>    Filtered:            0 (  0.000%)
> Outstanding:            0 (  0.000%)
>    Injected:            0
> ===============================================================================
> .....
>
> Is there a way to get this information (dropped packets) in the /proc filesystem while snort is runing?
>
> I did not found anything interesting after looking at /proc but maybe there is a preproc to activate or some tricks 
> like this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Thibault
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