Re: Snort Instance

[Nicholas Horton <fivetenets () me com>]

Just connection log at this point although I'm sure later they will ask for more data.

What I just thought of is I guess I can move the pcap to another system and use wire shark and sort there. 

Just curious still if I can get the connection logs without doing the copy and wire shark and sorting.

Nick

> On Oct 30, 2013, at 2:58 PM, James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net> wrote:
>
> > On 2013-10-30 12:38, Nicholas Horton wrote:
> > Is is possible to start a second command line instance of snort and
> > log sniffer results to easily show unique sources?
> >
> > More specially I want to capture in sniffer mode and be able to view
> > the data easily and quickly by source IP.
> >
> > For example I want to know any source that is coming in via FTP to a
> > few servers. So I have:
> >
> > "Snort -dev -i eth1 ip host 10.10.10.2 or ip host 10.10.10.3 or ip
> > host 10.10.10.4 and port 21 ./log"
> >
> > This works but trying to view the unique sources is a bit
> > overwhelming and tedious because of all the log entries.
> >
> > Is there a way to only capture unique sources or just limit the
> > entires to one alert or pull from this pcap unique sources in this
> > sniffer command line mode?
> >
> > I want to easily show these sources are FTP'ing to your servers.
> >
> > I right now I'm manually scrolling and trying to make a list from the 
> > pcap.
> >
> > My service snort has threshold.conf etc which is still running but I
> > want to do a second instance for just a on the fly sniffer capture
> > process that I start and and stop all while leaving my service snort
> > untouched.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Nick
>
> Are you wanting to see the actual packet data, or just something like a 
> connection log?
>
> James
>
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