Re: Problem With Snort

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

On Sep 17, 2012, at 3:04 AM, shadab <shadabrocking () gmail com> wrote:

> Hello can anyone help me out with snort .
>
> Problem I am facing:
> --- when i do snort -c snort.conf then it does not do anything while if i do snort -vde then it starts capturing the 
> packets.
>
> Even i tried to log the files created is of 0 bytes. I dont know whats happening .

Allow me to point you to the differences in between sniffer mode: http://manual.snort.org/node4.html and IDS mode:
 http://manual.snort.org/node6.html

--
Joel Esler
Senior Research Engineer, VRT
OpenSource Community Manager
Sourcefire

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