Re: question for snort flow established

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

On Mar 18, 2013, at 10:51 AM, waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net> wrote:

> [@ALL] why is this "-k none" suddenly needed more and more in recent months?? 
> we've never used it in any of our snort installations... is it special to a 
> certain set of NICs?? [/@ALL]

If you are generating traffic on the same box you are sniffing from, then you encounter this problem.  Otherwise, it's 
generally not needed.  Since most people only have one box...

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Joel Esler
Senior Research Engineer, VRT
OpenSource Community Manager
Sourcefire

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