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RE: Errors when initiating my sensors.
From: "Wirth, Jeff" <WirthJe () DNB com>
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 11:44:47 -0400
From: Vadim Pushkin [mailto:wiskbroom () hotmail com]
obsd30# May 1 10:33:06 snort1 snort: FATAL ERROR: ERROR: OpenPcap() device eth1 open: /dev/bpf8: Device not configured May 1 10:33:06 snort1 snort: FATAL ERROR: ERROR: OpenPcap() device eth1 open: /dev/bpf8: Device not configured
When *BSD is installed (this is true for FreeBSD, so I am assuming it's true for OpenBSD) only 4 bpf devices are configured.../dev/bpf0 thru /dev/bpf3. Guessing by your error you currently have /dev/bpf0 thru /dev/bpf7? So you need to add another bpf device. This works for FreeBSD (OpenBSD milage may vary..) # su - # cd /dev # ./MAKEDEV bpf8
The above is an error that I get when I try to startup snort on a box with five sensors. I just upgraded from 1.8.3 to 1.8.6 and I did not have this problem under 1.8.3. Any ideas as to what is missing and or broken? I am running on OpenBSD 3.0 and pushing data to a MySQL server, both mysql and openbsd boxes have been upgraded.
- Jeff
Current thread:
- Errors when initiating my sensors. Vadim Pushkin (May 01)
- Re: Errors when initiating my sensors. Andreas Östling (May 01)
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- RE: Errors when initiating my sensors. Wirth, Jeff (May 01)