Re: Restart snort inline without traffic loss?

["Andy" <a_w_smith () yahoo co uk>]

Hi,

I am already using pulledpork, how can I use this to help with my issues?

Thanks,
Andy.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heine Lysemose [mailto:lysemose () gmail com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 9:02 PM
> To: Andy
> Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Restart snort inline without traffic loss?
>
> Hi Andy
>
> On Feb 5, 2013 9:30 PM, "Andy" <a_w_smith () yahoo co uk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am new to snort, I have it installed on a web server running inline
> mode
> > with iptables, nfqueue, barnyard2 and snorby.
> >
> > I've downloaded the emerging threats rules, firstly all the rules are
> > alerts, do I have to convert these to drop if I want to drop the
> traffic?
> >
> Have a look at Pulledpork,  http://code.google.com/p/pulledpork/, it will
> do this for you + a lot of other cool things.
> > Assuming I do, how do I restart snort without loosing good traffic,
> > currently if I kill the process and restart I lose about 30 seconds of
> > traffic while snort restarts, not good on an ecommerce site.
> >
> > I also would like a fail safe nfqueue bypass in case things go wrong, at
> the
> > moment if snort goes down I also get locked out but its on a cron job to
> > restart if its down for more than 1 minute.
> >
> > I need some advice please..
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Lysemose
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