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Re: Preprocessor Question.


From: "Al Lewis (allewi)" <allewi () cisco com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 14:06:38 +0000

Without any preprocessors enabled you wont get much use as stream5 and/or frag should be enabled almost always for any 
type of inspection.

Are you just trying to log traffic or inspect it?

Albert Lewis
QA Software Engineer
SOURCEfire, Inc. now part of Cisco
9780 Patuxent Woods Drive
Columbia, MD 21046
Phone: (office) 443.430.7112
Email: allewi () cisco com

From: David A. [mailto:ti1ion2005 () gmail com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2016 8:43 AM
To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: [Snort-users] Preprocessor Question.

Hello everyone,
I am currently using Snort version 2.9.6.0 successfully with a very simple, custom snort.conf file that defines a few 
variables, allows some traffic to be ignored and then forwards everything else to a syslog server.
Recently, I have set up a second machine -- in this case a Raspberry Pi -- with Snort 2.9.7.0-3 and intend to use it 
the same way as the previous system.  However, it seems that the new version of Snort has introduced functionality that 
adds a "WARNING: No preprocessors configured for policy 0" to everything Snort processes.  I am not using preprocessors 
and don't have anything defined in my snort.conf.  I am not using decoders and don't have them defined, either.  I 
tried the "autoconfigure" command in my snort.conf, but that did not do anything.  As a result, my logs are filling up 
with this warning message and I have not been able to find a way of stopping it.
I have Googled this issue and the answer always comes back to reading the Snort manual (I have read the portions 
linked) and defining preprocessors.  I don't have any preprocessors and don't wish to have any.  Is there something I 
can do to stop Snort from issuing this warning?
Thank you for your help.
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