Re: Reducing snort binary size

["Will Metcalf" <william.metcalf () gmail com>]

You need libpcap for snort_inline.  It takes packets from ip_queue
nf_queue or IPFW and converts them from the native format into pcap.

Regards,

Will

On 12/26/06, Michael W. Cocke <cocke () catherders com> wrote:
> malvika joshi wrote:
> > I have compiled snort_inline version 2.4.5a and the size of snort_inline
> > binary comes to be 1844485 as given by ls -l.I need to reduce the size
> > of this binary.When I do an ldd on snort_inline it also lists
> > libpcap,but libpcap is not needed for snort_inline as far as I
> > know.Please help me out.
>
> I think you'll find that you do indeed need libpcap...  Take a look at
> the libpcap page -
>
> libpcap is a system-independent interface for user-level packet capture.
> libpcap provides a portable framework for low-level network monitoring.
> Applications include network statistics collection, security monitoring,
> network debugging, etc.
>
> Mike-
>
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