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      PC_Arcade
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      Yep, me. I've only been running SNORT.

      Although I will add Squid as soon as it becomes available again.

      acs uses significantly less memory for me too and also works as intended. Thank coldfusion

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        sullrich
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        @yoda715:

        Question is, why?

        No idea.  This is now a SNORT issue and this should be asked on their lists.

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          PC_Arcade
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          I think the latest version of SNORT (2.6.1.1) fixes this issue

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            yoda715
            last edited by

            Not sure if this fixes our issue.

            This is the issue solved in 2.6.1.1: "Fix problem with snort using high CPU and reprocessing the same rebuilt packets at session end or ACK in middle of packet when there are gaps in the packet sequence."

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              PC_Arcade
              last edited by

              certainly seems to :)

              Running in sparsebands now, only been up for ~5 minutes, but that's ~3 more than I've managed before

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                yoda715
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                I updated to the 2.6.1.1 versions and now I cant even get Snort to boot up on any performance setting. I am getting brand new errors now:

                Nov 24 14:53:39 snort2c[1571]: unable to open alertfile - exit
                Nov 24 14:53:39 snort2c[1571]: unable to open alertfile - exit
                Nov 24 14:53:39 snort2c[1571]: snort2c running in daemon mode pid: 1571
                Nov 24 14:53:39 snort2c[1571]: snort2c running in daemon mode pid: 1571

                I am running the 1.0.1-SNAPSHOT-11-24-2006

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                  sullrich
                  last edited by

                  Oh bugger.  I'll check it out a bit later tonite.

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                    yoda715
                    last edited by

                    Thanks Scott.

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                      PC_Arcade
                      last edited by

                      Didn't do that for me, BUT it also didn't trigger any alerts

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                        yoda715
                        last edited by

                        Try running a port scan from http://www.grc.com. You should see it appear in alert as a ping.

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                          ColdFusion
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                          I'm pretty much screwed with the same alert after I upgraded SNORT. Now the service will not start and stay running.

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                            yoda715
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                            Scott, I see where you reverted snort back to the 2.6.0.2.5. I reverted back to that version and I'm still getting the same error. The trouble must be in the latest snapshot.

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                              PC_Arcade
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                              @yoda715:

                              Try running a port scan from http://www.grc.com. You should see it appear in alert as a ping.

                              I know, and it doesn't.

                              I've reverted back to the older version and it still doesn't raise any alerts at all  ???

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                                yoda715
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                                What snapshot are you running? I'm thinking it has something to do with that since I too reverted back to the older version of snort.

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                                  ColdFusion
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                                  Version 1.01

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                                    PC_Arcade
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                                    @yoda715:

                                    What snapshot are you running? I'm thinking it has something to do with that since I too reverted back to the older version of snort.

                                    1.0.1-SNAPSHOT-11-19-2006

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                                      ColdFusion
                                      last edited by

                                      Well, it boiled down to me just re-installing pfSense(1.01) and re-installing SNORT. It started fine. I kept getting could not open alert file…..no matter what I did.......but now (keeping my fingers crossed) everything looks good.

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                                        PC_Arcade
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                                        I think I'd rather do without snort than re-install from scratch

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                                          sullrich
                                          last edited by

                                          Backup your configuration, reinstall, restore configuration.

                                          It takes about 6 minutes on a 800 mhz machine.

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                                            hoba
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                                            If you backup your configuration to a media (floppy/USB stick) to /conf/config.xml your users will only see 2 short downtimes while the pfSense is rebooting. The livecd will come up with your old config and the system will be usable while you are installing it to the hdd  ;)

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