Firewall Wizards mailing list archives
RE: Sniffing out a firewall -SNORT blew up registrty
From: "Chiman" <chiman () hawaiian net>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 22:51:51 -1000
Someone mentioned the snort utility. It looked really cool, and so I installed it. Somehow it blew up my registry, and every time i reboot it says WINDOWS REGISTRY CHECKER: Windows encountered an error accessing the system registry. Windows will restart and repair the system registry for you. [OK} LOL, I never wanted to be a windows expert... I do UNIX/Solaris/Linux/IOS etc, but... it's like owning a car where the check engine lite is always lit, but the hood is welded shut.... I've spent 4 hours on this problem so far... found out about the scanreg /restore command (and the scanreg /fix one too). Which must be run in the windows (or is it really MSODS) safe with command mode. Windows never does fix it of course. I have also looked around in regedit (but changed nothing). Also tried changing the system ini files (from msconfig), cursed windows always puts things back, that I don't want to boot, to try and take out snort. I have never found anything on snort in the system.ini files (all of them) nor the registry, but it ran before I rebooted. Did anyone else have this problem? Or does anyone know what to do from here? I hate Windoze, (UNIX Live free or Die... :-) Also tried running McAfee recovery disk, it runs Dr Solamens (sp?) doesn't do anything to help either.... Also tried running the PC troubleshooting software from the McAfee site... -----Original Message----- From: firewall-wizards-admin () nfr com [mailto:firewall-wizards-admin () nfr com]On Behalf Of Peter Lukas Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 7:09 AM To: Ryan Russell Cc: ayoung () veros com; firewall-wizards () nfr com Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem I was really trying more to give an example of the problem flags that can be gathered locally with netstat before charging out and assessing other devices for problems. Typically, that information could be gathered to generate a report of troubles on the network when combined with other factors (traffic amounts, duplex settings, etc). Next time, I'll be sure to pipe the message through /bin/lawyer to avoid a semantics debate with the peanut gallery, though... ;-) Peter On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Ryan Russell wrote:
On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Peter Lukas wrote:You'll get some pretty useful stats. Typically, any system with Ierrs, Oerrs or Collis will be experiencing a problem. Check caples, duplex settings and of course, the card /switch port itself.Please be careful about making blanket statements about collisions automatically meaning problems. On any connection that is supposed to be half-duplex Ethernet-style, collisions are perfectly normal, and you have to measure collisions against total traffic to even have a rudimentary problem measurement. Sorry, it's a pet peeve of mine. When I used to be primarily a network engineer, I would have systems administrators come to me and report that the system was reporting collisions, please fix the network. I'd reply that it was running half-duplex. <blank stare> Ryan
_______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://list.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://list.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem Thomas Ray (Nov 03)
- RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem Alan Young (Nov 03)
- Re: RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem Peter Lukas (Nov 03)
- Re: RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem Ryan Russell (Nov 04)
- RE: RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem Robert McMahon (Nov 05)
- RE: RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem Chiman (Nov 06)
- RE: RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem Anton (Nov 13)
- Re: RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem Pierre-Yves BONNETAIN (Nov 09)
- Re: RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem Peter Lukas (Nov 03)
- Re: RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem Peter Lukas (Nov 05)
- RE: Sniffing out a firewall -SNORT blew up registrty Chiman (Nov 06)
- RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem Alan Young (Nov 03)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem TDyson (Nov 03)
- Re: RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem Gregory Hicks (Nov 05)
- Re: RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem Barney Wolff (Nov 08)
- RE: RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem Carl Friedberg (Nov 09)
- Re: RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem Stephane Nasdrovisky (Nov 09)
- RE: RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem M. Dodge Mumford (Nov 09)
- RE: RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem Carl Friedberg (Nov 10)