Reading a TCPdump file

["Mark Johnston" <mark.johnston () bluesq com>]

Hi all,

Wondering if you can help with this matter that I am having in reading a TCPdump format file.

I'm looking at one of the honeynet scan of the month projects (#27). And what I'm trying to do is get snort to read the 
TCPdump capture file and view the alerts. Thus far I have configured the conf file to have the appropriate values and 
run snort against the file, however I'm not getting any generated alerts. I know that I should be getting some though. 
I also have the latest version of the rules and am running snort 2.2 for Fedora Core 2. The command that I am using is 
"snort -A full -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -r sotm27"

Just to see if snort is working properly I created a "any any" rule and put it into NIDS mode. Alerts were generated 
then by the dozens.

Any ideas ?

Thanks
Mark


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