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Re: New user to Snort- Having errors
From: Joel Esler <eslerj () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:10:52 -0500
On Nov 28, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Arun Patil wrote:
Hi, I am a new user to snort but facing few problems.Whenver I give the command snort -v, I get the following message and the screen gets paused.D:\Snort\bin>snort -v Running in packet dump mode --== Initializing Snort ==-- Initializing Output Plugins! Verifying Preprocessor Configurations! *** *** interface device lookup found: \ *** Initializing Network Interface \Device\NPF_GenericDialupAdapter Decoding Ethernet on interface \Device\NPF_GenericDialupAdapter --== Initialization Complete ==-- ,,_ -*> Snort! <*- o" )~ Version 2.8.3.1-ODBC-MySQL-FlexRESP-WIN32 GRE (Build 17) '''' By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team: http://www.snort.org/team.html (C) Copyright 1998-2008 Sourcefire Inc., et al. Using PCRE version: 7.4 2007-09-21 Not Using PCAP_FRAMES
You are telling Snort to monitor in your dialup interface.You need to specify which interface you want Snort to sniff on by using the "-i" command line tag. Try "snort -v -i 2"
Joel
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