Re: Testing snort

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

Snort can read pcap files directly.

snort -c /etc/snort/conf -r <file.pcap>


Joel

On May 24, 2012, at 6:04 AM, Sandip Bankewar wrote:

> Hi All,
>  
> I want to test snort using large packets.
> I started wireshark and started to capture traffic. I am planning to save .pcap file and load it into a system 
> running snort.
> My question is how can I load .pcap or wireshark file to that system?
> Is there any tool?
>  
> Is there any other method to test it?
>  
>  
> Regards,
> Sandip Bankewar
>  
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