RE: snort dropping 48%

["Sheahan, Paul" <Paul.Sheahan () priceline com>]

I still don't have an answer either. 49% of packets being dropped is
absolutely ridiculous.

I recently ran TOP to check memory while Snort was running my
content-based rules and noticed that even though I had 1 gig of ram in
my server, there was almost no free memory. So I upgraded to 4 gig of
RAM figuring Snort just needed more RAM, but the same problem is still
occurring, 49% of packets are still being dropped.

Should I take a look at libpcap? I understand there are multiple
versions. What version should I be running?

Thanks


-----Original Message-----
From: snort user [mailto:snortuser () hotmail com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 1:42 PM
To: Sheahan, Paul
Subject: RE: [Snort-users] snort dropping 48%

Im actually getting the same problem on a Debian machine. When the
traffic 
exceeds 100Mb/s snort really starts dropping packets fast. If I remove 
content based rules then dropped apckets significantly drop. I never saw
a 
reply other than it could be a RedHat problem so I was wondering if
anyone 
else had any ideas since I am not on RedHat.


> From: "Sheahan, Paul" <Paul.Sheahan () priceline com>
> To: <snort-users () lists sourceforge net>
> Subject: [Snort-users] snort dropping 48%
> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:46:55 -0400
>
> Can anyone give me a tip in this situation?
>
>
>
> I used to have a Snort 1.9 sensor running on RHLinux7 on a 100mb
> Ethernet network. On that sensor I ran the most of the default rules
> plus my own custom rule file, which contained a lot of content-based
> rules. It handled it no problem and didn't drop any packets.
>
>
>
> Now I've upgraded to a big beefy server, gig Ethernet, RH Linux 8.0 and
> Snort 2.0.5 using the same Snort config as above. Traffic levels are
the
> same. Now I noticed it was dropping half of the traffic! My custom
> content rules are extremely important to me, so I performed a test. I
> created this bare bones snort.conf which basically disables all
standard
> rules and extra preprocessors:
>
>
>
> var HOME_NET [10.10.0.0/16]
>
> var EXTERNAL_NET !$HOME_NET
>
> preprocessor frag2
>
> preprocessor http_decode: 80 unicode iis_alt_unicode double_encode
> iis_flip_slash full_whitespace
>
> include classification.config
>
> include reference.config
>
> include /etc/snort/my.rules
>
> include /etc/snort/pass.rules
>
>
>
> Then I started Snort and let it capture traffic for a while. I stopped
> Snort and it is STILL dropping 48% of the traffic! My "my.rules" file
> contains a few hundred content-based rules. What gives? Can Snort no
> longer handle content-based rules? Or am I missing something here?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul

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