Re: Snort 2.9, RHEL 5 and afpacket DAQ [~Solved?]

[Michael Altizer <xiche () verizon net>]

 On 10/21/2010 03:52 PM, Rich Graves wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Michael Altizer 
> <maltizer () sourcefire com <mailto:maltizer () sourcefire com>> wrote:
>
>
>     I've attached an updated version of my previous patch which
>     incorporates item 1.
>
>
> On my box, this fixes snort -c. Thanks.
>
> However, snort -Tc still fails if (snort -c + snort -Tc) buffers are > 
> 49MB.
>
> Using snort --daq pcap -Tc to test config/rule changes is an 
> acceptable workaround for me, and probably better in most cases 
> (unless you specifically want to test buffer memory allocation). But 
> it either needs to be fixed or release-noted.
>
> # snort -T -c /etc/snort/snort.conf
> ...
> afpacket DAQ configured to passive.
> Floating point exception
> # echo $?
> 136
Thanks.  This is in part due to the AFPacket DAQ module not being 
defensive enough, but the real root cause is Snort passing it an empty 
interface string in test mode when no interface is specified on the 
command line (this differs from normal mode where it uses pcap to find a 
default device).  You can work around this by specifying an interface 
(-i) when running in test mode.  There should be no difference between 
49mb and > 49mb now.

snort --daq-dir /usr/local/lib64/daq --daq afpacket -T -c 
/root/snort.conf -i eth0

^ works fine on my CentOS 5.5 system.

-Michael

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