Re: Is there an acceptable amount of dropped packets for snort?

[Andy Berryman <aberryman () cymtec com>]

We use a custom output method. We put all the "events" in a queue. Then we have a different process take the events 
from the queue and load them to our web server for us to view them. All snort has to worry about is scanning the 
traffic, generating the events, and placing them in the queue directory.


Snort.conf:
output queue: /var/log/queue/



Andy

From: Joel Esler [mailto:jesler () sourcefire com]
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 3:07 PM
To: Andy Berryman
Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Is there an acceptable amount of dropped packets for snort?

Andy,

Definitely the less packet drops the better.  0 being the optimal number.  What output method are you using?  By any 
chance the Database output method?

J

On Feb 8, 2010, at 3:55 PM, Andy Berryman wrote:


Just wondering if there is a general acceptable amount of dropped packets for snort? Someone told me anything under 
around 10% would be acceptable. To me that's not right, any dropped packets to me is a big deal.

Would this be considered acceptable? My interval for the stats reporting is every 30 seconds.

Feb  8 19:30:32 (none) snort[25517]: Pkts Recv:   679621
Feb  8 19:30:32 (none) snort[25517]: Pkts Drop:   3096
Feb  8 19:30:32 (none) snort[25517]: % Dropped:   0.456%


  8 19:30:32 (none) snort[25517]: Mbits/Second
Feb  8 19:30:32 (none) snort[25517]: ----------------
Feb  8 19:30:32 (none) snort[25517]: Snort:       347.481
Feb  8 19:30:32 (none) snort[25517]: Sniffing:    1509.490
Feb  8 19:30:32 (none) snort[25517]: Combined:    282.460
Feb  8 19:30:32 (none) snort[25517]: uSeconds/Pkt
Feb  8 19:30:32 (none) snort[25517]: ----------------

Feb  8 19:30:32 (none) snort[25517]: Snort Setwise Event Stats
Feb  8 19:30:32 (none) snort[25517]: -------------------------
Feb  8 19:30:32 (none) snort[25517]: Total Events:           913852
Feb  8 19:30:32 (none) snort[25517]: Qualified Events:       451
Feb  8 19:30:32 (none) snort[25517]: Non-Qualified Events:   913401
Feb  8 19:30:32 (none) snort[25517]: %Qualified Events:      0.0494%
Feb  8 19:30:32 (none) snort[25517]: %Non-Qualified Events:  99.9506%

Thanks,
Andy Berryman

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