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Re: Snort as Gigabit Sensor
From: Chris Green <cmg () sourcefire com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:02:48 -0400
Frank Knobbe <frank () knobbe us> writes:
Let me ask you this then... is the pcap loop buffered? Does libpcap buffer packets itself (internally being multi-threaded)? If not, having at least the acquisition separated and buffered should help Snort not to drop packets when it is busy logging to the database.
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- Re: Snort as Gigabit Sensor, (continued)
- Re: Snort as Gigabit Sensor Irwan Hadi (Jul 27)
- Re: Snort as Gigabit Sensor Marc Quibell (Jul 24)
- RE: Snort as Gigabit Sensor Banniza Robert (Jul 24)
- RE: Snort as Gigabit Sensor Hutchinson, Andrew (Jul 25)
- RE: Snort as Gigabit Sensor Kreimendahl, Chad J (Jul 25)
- RE: Snort as Gigabit Sensor Kreimendahl, Chad J (Jul 29)
- Re: Snort as Gigabit Sensor Chris Green (Jul 31)
- Re: Snort as Gigabit Sensor Frank Knobbe (Jul 31)
- Re: Snort as Gigabit Sensor Chris Green (Jul 31)
- Re: Snort as Gigabit Sensor Frank Knobbe (Jul 31)
- Re: Snort as Gigabit Sensor Chris Green (Jul 31)
- Re: Snort as Gigabit Sensor Frank Knobbe (Jul 31)
- Re: Snort as Gigabit Sensor Chris Green (Jul 31)
- Re: Snort as Gigabit Sensor Chris Green (Jul 31)
- Re: Snort as Gigabit Sensor Phil Wood (Jul 31)