Multiple instances of snort -G option

[Robert Millott <robm () millottandassociates com>]

I am running two instances of snort on one machine, to handle the traffic
load.  I have split the traffic using BPF Filters, so one instance see just
web traffic, while the second instance handles everything else.  I am
running snort 2.9.6 on a Gentoo 3.14.4 host
  I have read in the snort manual about using the -G multiple instance
identifier.  I added this to my command line when starting up snort, using
"-G 1" on the first instance and "-G 2" on the second instance. Snort
starts up and run just fine, but I don't see anything different in my
output.  I am logging to /var/log/messages and I don't see any "1" or "2"
added in.  I compared snort output with the -G switch to snort output
without the -G output and I don't see a difference.

Anyone out there using this option?  If so, where does that instance
identifier show up?

Thanx

-- 
Robert Millott
President, Millott and Associates
(443) 255-3588

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