Re: snort is logging alerts but not capturing corresponding packets for some rules

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

No.  They are in unified.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:02 PM, waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net>wrote:

> On 4/26/2011 14:57, Joel Esler wrote:
> > No, it's my fault, I should have recognized the problem.
> >
> > Alerts that are not based off of the pseudo packet are logged to tcpdump.
> >
> > The pseudo packet is created by stream5 internal to Snort to be able to
> fire on
> > stream reassembled traffic (such as this).  It's only externally logged
> via unified.
>
> so... we don't get a pcap of the packets used in the reassembly so that we
> can
> snoop the actual traffic?? if so, that doesn't seem right... we get pcaps
> for
> all the other alerts but just not for ones reassembled... am i
> understanding
> that correctly?
>
>
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