Re: Pfring crashes the kernel with white lists.

[Peter Bates <peter.bates () ucl ac uk>]

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Hello all

On 21/06/2012 00:58, livio Ricciulli wrote:
> If you use --daq pfring with snort 2.9.2.x, it will cause pfring to
> add a monotonically increasing number of WHITE_LIST pfring filters
> in kernel memory causing memory exhaustion and eventually a crash
> after a few hours/days/months depending on your traffic rate. We
> have a pfring distribution that fixes this and other problems (like
>  supporting bpf filtering) at
> http://www.metaflows.com/pfring/PF_RING.tgz

I'm running this combination and am keen to avoid this bug so will
take a look.

Can you explain 'supporting bpf filtering' a bit more?

I have

config bpf_file: /etc/snort/bpf

(equivalent to -F)

and according to PF_RING the BPF is being applied:

BPF Filtering      : Enabled

Or is the difference in Snort applying the BPF filter after PF_RING
and not before?

- -- 
Peter Bates
Senior Computer Security Officer    Phone: +44(0)2076792049
Information Services Division       Internal Ext: 32049
University College London
London WC1E 6BT


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