Thanks man! Greatly appreciated!

@MilesDeep: Thanks.  That's easy enough.  Will all the conf files remain intact? Yes, Snort and Suricata upgrades use the existing configuration stored in the config.xml file on the firewall.  The actual snort.conf (or suricata.yaml) conf file for the binary is regenerated each time the binary is started. Bill

@fsansfil: With everything going HTTPS these days a Bluecoat or squid with i-cap and sslbump is better for web filtering than an IPS. You might be better suited with a proxy. "So i am NOT complaining!" No harm, no offense; Its just me after working 12hrs in a row, doing suricata rules ;) F. I have the i-cap/clam anti-virus enabled in my squid3 config

2.1.5 is dead. Move on. No fixes will ever appear there.

As noted above - try without sync. (Hopefully gone everywhere again with 2.2.4.)

Disable the broken rule. And while at it, disable 1:2015526, same idiocy.

Using the ADVANCED PASS-THROUGH option would be the mechanism for using that config directive.  You will find that on the INTERFACE SETTINGS tab for the specific interface. Bill

Swapping cables would be one thing to try.  It is possible that the libpcap library and the USB NIC don't play well together. Bill

Well, the way to mass-disable rules is called SIG Mgmt.

Someone's pinging you… Some rules categories are just horrible idea to enable; icmp_info definitely among them.

Okey dokey, thanks for the clarification :)

If your still having this problem edit your snort interface and check under your "WAN preprocs" that you don't have Application ID Detection enabled. Mine seems to have been enabled with the last update and just realised now.

pfSense 2.1.* is no longer supported so you are running a really old version of Snort. Upgrade your pfSense and try again with the latest version of the package.

If you want to see internal LAN IPs before NAT, you need to run on LAN as well.

Hmmm, WTF… There's something badly rotten with UFS.

@doktornotor: Excellents, thanks! Going to do the same for suricata as well? Yeah, I will port the same fixes/features in Snort over to Suricata.  The Suricata GUI code was cloned from Snort's anyway, so they share a ton of functions with identical code. Bill

Scratch my earlier reply.  I forgot how my own code works …  :-[ The Widget code first verifies an alert log file exists for the interface, then it tails the configured number of entries from it and writes those "tailed" entries to a temp file in the [b]/tmp directory.  The code then verifies the temp file exists in /tmp and then opens it for reading.  The opening for reading is failing in your case, but the error says it's failing because the file does not exist.  However, before the open is attempted, a call is made to verify the file exists, so I really don't know what is going on in your case. I can add another layer of error-checking to the Widget code and will do so in the next update. Bill

Snort puts monitored interfaces into promiscuous mode.  This could, I suppose, generate a few more NIC interrupts as the card will be processing all packets instead of just packets sent to its MAC address. Bill