Re: max flowbits fatal errors

[Russ Combs <rcombs () sourcefire com>]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Kungu Panda <kungupanda () gmail com> wrote:

> Thank you Russ, I very much appreciate the response.
>
> Yes, I am building from source.
>
> I will disable several of the lower-priority rules until this can get
> patched.  This will be somewhat painful as our dataflows are pretty unique
> and, obviously, we use flowbits heavily.
>
> Will there be a specific bug id# that I can watch-out for?

No - but it will probably be in 2.9.0.1 or 2.9.1 at the latest.

> K.Panda
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Russ Combs <rcombs () sourcefire com> wrote:
>
> > Looks like that option is broken.  I'll create a bug for it.
> >
> > Are building from source?
> >
> > You are so close to the limit, are there any rules you can disable?
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Kungu Panda <kungupanda () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > I am running into the following fatal error when starting snort:
> > >
> > >   "ERROR: FLOWBITS: The number of flowbit IDs in the current ruleset
> > > (513) exceed the maximum number of IDs that are allowed (512)."
> > >   "Fatal Error, Quitting."
> > >
> > > I tried setting the global configuration option in snort.conf:  "config
> > > flowbits_size: 768"  which really resulted in the really confusing error:
> > >   "ERROR: /etc/snort/snort.conf  Invalid argument to 'flowbits_size':
> > > 768.  Must be a positive integer and less than 256."
> > >
> > > Running on snort v2.8.6.1.
> > > Tried finding help in the snort manual and README.flowbits with no
> > > success.
> > > Also did not find any command-line options that would help.
> > >
> > > Can someone point me in the right direction regarding bumping-up the
> > > maximum number of flowbits IDs ?
> > > And what exactly does the "config flowbits_size: nnn"  configuration
> > > option do ?
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > K.Panda
> > >
> > >
> > >
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