Re: How to determine that the Snort is ready to capture the traffic?

["Joel Esler (jesler)" <jesler () cisco com>]

I think the first question I would ask… Why are you loading 50k rules?



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Joel Esler
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> On Jun 14, 2016, at 7:17 AM, Andrei_1980 <andrei_1980 () mail ru> wrote:
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> Hi all.
>
> I have a question.
> I use Snort 2.9.8.0 with near 50k rules. On slow PC, time to completely load all rules and Snort ready to process 
> traffic take up 1 min. Sometimes more sometimes less. When snort run in background mode, I need to define time 
> exactly when snort begin ready to process traffic. Is there any way to determine that moment (when Snort ready to 
> capture traffic)?
> P.s. Now i use simple way - grep stdout until some text pattern. But it will be wonder, if Snort could announce 
> readiness event.
>
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