Re: Question - Testing & Packet processing Capacity of SNORT

[wkitty42 () windstream net]

On 08/01/2016 12:24 AM, SAC wrote:
> 1) How can i generate high data rates of traffic (Gigabits) to be thrown to
> Snort?

isn't this what KUTE is for?

> 2) And in Snort, (if those packets received), HOW can i test whether how
> many packets it has processed and how many dropped.?

when snort is terminated, it posts statistics of its processing... there is also 
the performance logging that creates a CSV of stats...


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