snort not reporting

[Allan Jensen <tubajensen () yahoo com>]

I installed snort 2.2.0 on Mac OS X 10.3.6 together with ACID 0.9.6b23. Everything went fine. When I start snort:

sudo snort -dvi -c /etc/snort/snort.conf

I get the following:

Running in IDS mode
Log directory = /var/log/snort

Initializing Network Interface ppp0

--== Initializing Snort ==--
Initializing Output Plugins!
Decoding PPP on interface ppp0
Initializing Preprocessors!
Initializing Plug-ins!
Parsing Rules file /etc/snort/snort.conf

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Initializing rule chains...
,-----------[Flow Config]----------------------
| Stats Interval:  0
| Hash Method:     2
| Memcap:          10485760
| Rows  :          4099
| Overhead Bytes:  16400(%0.16)
`----------------------------------------------
No arguments to frag2 directive, setting defaults to:
Fragment timeout: 60 seconds
Fragment memory cap: 4194304 bytes
Fragment min_ttl:   0
Fragment ttl_limit: 5
Fragment Problems: 0
Self preservation threshold: 500
Self preservation period: 90
Suspend threshold: 1000
Suspend period: 30
Stream4 config:
Stateful inspection: ACTIVE
Session statistics: INACTIVE
Session timeout: 30 seconds
Session memory cap: 8388608 bytes
State alerts: INACTIVE
Evasion alerts: INACTIVE
Scan alerts: INACTIVE
Log Flushed Streams: INACTIVE
MinTTL: 1
TTL Limit: 5
Async Link: 0
State Protection: 0
Self preservation threshold: 50
Self preservation period: 90
Suspend threshold: 200
Suspend period: 30
Stream4_reassemble config:
Server reassembly: INACTIVE
Client reassembly: ACTIVE
Reassembler alerts: ACTIVE
Zero out flushed packets: INACTIVE
flush_data_diff_size: 500
Ports: 21 23 25 53 80 110 111 143 513 1433
Emergency Ports: 21 23 25 53 80 110 111 143 513 1433
HttpInspect Config:
GLOBAL CONFIG
Max Pipeline Requests:    0
Inspection Type:          STATELESS
Detect Proxy Usage:       NO
IIS Unicode Map Filename: /etc/snort/unicode.map
IIS Unicode Map Codepage: 1252
DEFAULT SERVER CONFIG:
Ports: 80 8080 8180
Flow Depth: 300
Max Chunk Length: 500000
Inspect Pipeline Requests: YES
URI Discovery Strict Mode: NO
Allow Proxy Usage: NO
Disable Alerting: NO
Oversize Dir Length: 500
Only inspect URI: NO
Ascii: YES alert: NO
Double Decoding: YES alert: YES
%U Encoding: YES alert: YES
Bare Byte: YES alert: YES
Base36: OFF
UTF 8: OFF
IIS Unicode: YES alert: YES
Multiple Slash: YES alert: NO
IIS Backslash: YES alert: NO
Directory Traversal: YES alert: NO
Web Root Traversal: YES alert: YES
Apache WhiteSpace: YES alert: YES
IIS Delimiter: YES alert: YES
IIS Unicode Map: GLOBAL IIS UNICODE MAP CONFIG
Non-RFC Compliant Characters: NONE
rpc_decode arguments:
Ports to decode RPC on: 111 32771
alert_fragments: INACTIVE
alert_large_fragments: ACTIVE
alert_incomplete: ACTIVE
alert_multiple_requests: ACTIVE
telnet_decode arguments:
Ports to decode telnet on: 21 23 25 119
database: compiled support for ( mysql )
database: configured to use mysql
database:          user = root
database: password is set
database: database name = snort
database:          host = localhost
Node unique name is: 80.134.161.187
database:   sensor name = 80.134.161.187
database:     sensor id = 6
database: schema version = 106
database: using the "alert" facility
2180 Snort rules read...
2180 Option Chains linked into 176 Chain Headers
0 Dynamic rules
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Warning: flowbits key 'realplayer.playlist' is checked but not ever set.

+-----------------------[thresholding-config]----------------------------------
| memory-cap : 1048576 bytes
+-----------------------[thresholding-global]----------------------------------
| none
+-----------------------[thresholding-local]-----------------------------------
| gen-id=1      sig-id=2275       type=Threshold tracking=dst count=5   seconds=60
| gen-id=1      sig-id=2924       type=Threshold tracking=src count=10  seconds=60
| gen-id=1      sig-id=2923       type=Threshold tracking=src count=10  seconds=60
| gen-id=1      sig-id=2523      type=Both       tracking=dst count=10  seconds=10
| gen-id=1      sig-id=2496      type=Both       tracking=dst count=20  seconds=60
| gen-id=1      sig-id=2494      type=Both       tracking=dst count=20  seconds=60
| gen-id=1      sig-id=2495      type=Both       tracking=dst count=20  seconds=60
+-----------------------[suppression]------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rule application order: ->activation->dynamic->alert->pass->log

--== Initialization Complete ==--

-*> Snort! <*-
Version 2.2.0 (Build 30)
By Martin Roesch (roesch () sourcefire com, www.snort.org)

However after a while when I control-c :

^C

===============================================================================

Snort received 8244 packets
Analyzed: 8244(100.000%)
Dropped: 0(0.000%)
===============================================================================
Breakdown by protocol:
TCP: 0          (0.000%)
UDP: 0          (0.000%)
ICMP: 0          (0.000%)
ARP: 0          (0.000%)
EAPOL: 0          (0.000%)
IPv6: 0          (0.000%)
IPX: 0          (0.000%)
OTHER: 0          (0.000%)
DISCARD: 0          (0.000%)
===============================================================================
Action Stats:
ALERTS: 0
LOGGED: 0
PASSED: 0
===============================================================================
Final Flow Statistics
,----[ FLOWCACHE STATS ]----------
Memcap: 10485760 Overhead Bytes 16400 used(%0.156403)/blocks (16400/1) Overhead blocks: 1 Could Hold: (0)
IPV4 count: 0 frees: 0 low_time: 0, high_time: 0, diff: 0h:00:00s
finds: 0 reversed: 0(%0.000000)
find_sucess: 0 find_fail: 0 percent_success: (%0.000000) new_flows: 0
database: Closing connection to database "p"
Snort exiting

Nothing gets reported. I have configured snort.conf like this:

var HOME_NET any
and
var EXTERNAL_NET any
and
output database: alert,  mysql, user=root password=<mypassword> dbname=snort host=localhost

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Allan