Re: (no subject)

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

I don't think that's the problem.  I have a 1.5GB pcap that I run for testing a specific type of rule quite regularly 
and it works fine.

What happens when you run 
snort -c /etc/snort.conf -r <file> -l /path/to/alert/file -b

?

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On Dec 13, 2012, at 4:34 PM, JJC <cummingsj () gmail com> wrote:

> There are also numerous utilities that can split the
> sessions/conversations out into multiple smaller pcaps..
>
> JJC
>
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Giles Coochey <giles () coochey net> wrote:
> > On 13/12/2012 20:56, Steve Marotta wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there a way to run Snort in NIDS mode on large (>500MB) pcap dumps? When
> > I try to run snort –dev –l (mylog) –r (myfile) –c /etc/snort.conf, I get,
> > “Value too large for defined data type” and “ERROR: Error getting pcaps”.
> >
> >
> >
> > Is this because the file I’m reading is too large? If so, is there a
> > workaround?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Have you tried tcpreplay to an interface that snort is listening on?
> >
> > --
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> >
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