Re: NIDS on large (>500MB) pcap dumps

[Balasubramaniam Natarajan <bala150985 () gmail com>]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Steve Marotta <smarotta () cra com> wrote:

> Is there a way to run Snort in NIDS mode on large (>500MB) pcap dumps?
> When I try to run snort -dev -l (mylog) -r (myfile) -c /etc/snort.conf, I
> get, "Value too large for defined data type" and "ERROR: Error getting
> pcaps".
>
> Is this because the file I'm reading is too large? If so, is there a
> workaround?
You have to recompile snort with the following options.  Tell us how it
goes.

snort-2.9.4# ./configure --help | grep "2 GB"
  --enable-large-pcap      Enable support for pcaps larger than 2 GB




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Regards,
Balasubramaniam Natarajan
www.blog.etutorshop.com

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