Re: max flowbits fatal errors

[Kungu Panda <kungupanda () gmail com>]

Thank you Russ, I very much appreciate the response.

Yes, I am building from source.

I will disable several of the lower-priority rules until this can get
patched.  This will be somewhat painful as our dataflows are pretty unique
and, obviously, we use flowbits heavily.

Will there be a specific bug id# that I can watch-out for?

K.Panda



On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Russ Combs <rcombs () sourcefire com> wrote:

> Looks like that option is broken.  I'll create a bug for it.
>
> Are building from source?
>
> You are so close to the limit, are there any rules you can disable?
>
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Kungu Panda <kungupanda () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > I am running into the following fatal error when starting snort:
> >
> >   "ERROR: FLOWBITS: The number of flowbit IDs in the current ruleset (513)
> > exceed the maximum number of IDs that are allowed (512)."
> >   "Fatal Error, Quitting."
> >
> > I tried setting the global configuration option in snort.conf:  "config
> > flowbits_size: 768"  which really resulted in the really confusing error:
> >   "ERROR: /etc/snort/snort.conf  Invalid argument to 'flowbits_size':
> > 768.  Must be a positive integer and less than 256."
> >
> > Running on snort v2.8.6.1.
> > Tried finding help in the snort manual and README.flowbits with no
> > success.
> > Also did not find any command-line options that would help.
> >
> > Can someone point me in the right direction regarding bumping-up the
> > maximum number of flowbits IDs ?
> > And what exactly does the "config flowbits_size: nnn"  configuration
> > option do ?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > K.Panda
> >
> >
> >
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