Re: [Stats] Get dropped packets count while snort runing (/proc/xxxx search)

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

Outstanding is the difference between hw packets received and daq packets received.  If you have a huge number (as you 
do) this is a bug in Snort (that we've fixed in 2.9.2, which comes out tomorrow) that has something to do with how 
certain kernels count packets incorrectly.

Joel  


On Dec 13, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Jefferson, Shawn wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> Speaking of the stats that get output, what does “Outstanding” refer to?  See my stats below.
>  
> Packet I/O Totals:
> Received:   5974738704
> Analyzed:   5876466751 ( 98.355%)
> Dropped:      8008319 (  0.134%)
> Filtered:     98272389 (  1.645%)
> Outstanding: 18446744073709551180 (308745620312.395%)
> Injected:            0
>  
> From: Joel Esler [mailto:jesler () sourcefire com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 9:20 AM
> To: Thibault - Gonfreecs -
> Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] [Stats] Get dropped packets count while snort runing (/proc/xxxx search)
>  
> You can issue the USR1 command to Snort.
>  
> Kill -usr1 (pidof snort) will dump the stats of the running Snort process to the output file (on redhat/fedora, 
> /var/log/messages)
>  
> J
>  
> On Dec 13, 2011, at 8:10 AM, Thibault - Gonfreecs - wrote:
>
>
> Hi there,
>  
> I need to get the amount of packet which have been dropped by snort.
>  
> I can get this when runing manualy snort (snort -n 100 -i eth0) in the stat summary after stoping snort (CTRL+C) like 
> this :
>  
> .....
> ===============================================================================
> Packet I/O Totals:
>    Received:          100
>    Analyzed:          100 (100.000%)
>     Dropped:            0 (  0.000%)
>    Filtered:            0 (  0.000%)
> Outstanding:            0 (  0.000%)
>    Injected:            0
> ===============================================================================
> .....
>  
> Is there a way to get this information (dropped packets) in the /proc filesystem while snort is runing?
>  
> I did not found anything interesting after looking at /proc but maybe there is a preproc to activate or some tricks 
> like this?
>  
> Thanks in advance,
> Thibault
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