I have the same feeling as you. I really do not know how barnyard2 perform with several sensors and do some queries/update. I definitively have to put some monitoring on the mysql/mariadb database to know exactly what's going on a do better things than "drop the database and reinstall snorby" :) Maybe barnyard2 itself should produce some alerting info when it sees that there is an issue with the database. Well, I will start to find some good monitoring solution for mysql and keep you updated. Romain

The latest pfSense stable release is 2.2.  Upgrade to that, and the Snort package will show up in the Packages listing.  The current Snort version is 2.9.7.0 for the binary and 3.2.3 for the GUI package. Bill

@thx2000: Thank you!  The last paragraph was my problem.  For some reason, I assumed when adding the pass list that was modifying the default pass list.  For future reference, what is the recommended procedure for adding hosts to the whitelist?  I'm assuming I just need to update the alias, and restart the daemon on the interface?  Are there any other tricks I should be aware of? Thanks again. Yep, update the assigned alias and restart the interface. I think I will put some notifications and/or extra text on the PASS LIST tab in a future release to make this more clear.  It has tripped up several folks. Bill

Hi Bill, No, no duplicates otherwise, just snort alerts (but not, eg. snort startup notices).

@canyonnetworks: UPDATE: I changed the Performance mode to AC-BFNA and now the interfaces start in 30 seconds. I used the GUI re-install now and it has fully restored everything back to normal now. Thanks again for your assistance. Ah…your Snort process was probably running out of memory and/or using swap and getting super slow.  Any Performance Mode other than AC-BFNA or AC-BFNA-NQ is a problem it seems.  Lots of folks have reported issues when changing it to something else.  Most of the other settings will eat memory like crazy, especially with lots of enabled rules. Bill

The fix for this (provided by Phil, thanks  ;)) was merged into production today.  The package version was NOT bumped because the change was so minor and really did not impact Snort itself.  If you want the fix, simply do a GUI Components reinstall of Snort using the XML icon on the System > Packages > Installed Packages tab. Bill