Re: Missing Portscanners in 2.8 - Flow-Portscan vs stream5

[frederick sonnichsen <fsonnichsen () whoi edu>]

No. I tried it originally and snort failed with:
FATAL ERROR: Stream5 and flow cannot be used at the same time, as 
Stream5 provides the same functionality as flow.

Thanks!
Fritz


rmkml wrote:

> Hi Frederick,
> do you have enabled preprocessor flow on snort.conf ?
> Regards
> Rmkml
>
>
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, frederick sonnichsen wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:22:17 -0400
> > From: frederick sonnichsen <fsonnichsen () whoi edu>
> > To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> > Subject: [Snort-users] Missing Portscanners in 2.8 - Flow-Portscan vs 
> > stream5
> >
> > I have converted from 2.3.3 to 2.8.0.2.
> > Running both versions now, the newer version detects fewer portscans and
> > sweeps. I stated looking into the preprocessors:
> >
> > Per the doc, stream5 replaces stream4, and also the flow preprocessors.
> > However, due to the missing detection I decided to add back the
> > Flow-Portscan. When I do this I get the following message at snort 
> > startup:
> >      FATAL ERROR: /etc/snort/snort.conf(806) flow-portscan requires
> > spp_flow to be enabled!
> >
> > I cannnot find anything about the option spp_flow or how to turn it on.
> > Any ideas?
> > Thanks
> > Fritz
> >
> >
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