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      digdug3
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      Thanks a lot Bill. The automated fix for duplicate UUID works perfectly (tried it on an old backup)!

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        bmeeks
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        @digdug3:

        Thanks a lot Bill. The automated fix for duplicate UUID works perfectly (tried it on an old backup)!

        Great!  Thanks for the feedback.

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          DigitalDeviant
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          Well, it was running OK until sometime this AM when it seemingly randomly crashed and fails to restart. The only recent change to the system was enabling the DHCPv6 server, I disabled that again but it did not fix the issue.. Rebooting and reinstalling so far haven't helped. The only relevant error I found is at the end of the suricata.log below

          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <notice>-- This is Suricata version 2.0.3 RELEASE
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- CPUs/cores online: 4
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- Live rule reloads enabled
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- 'default' server has 'request-body-minimal-inspect-size' set to 33882 and 'request-body-inspect-window' set to 4053 after randomization.
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- 'default' server has 'response-body-minimal-inspect-size' set to 33695 and 'response-body-inspect-window' set to 4218 after randomization.
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- HTTP memcap: 67108864
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- DNS request flood protection level: 500
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- DNS per flow memcap (state-memcap): 524288
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- DNS global memcap: 16777216
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- allocated 1572864 bytes of memory for the defrag hash... 65536 buckets of size 24
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- preallocated 65535 defrag trackers of size 144
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- defrag memory usage: 11009904 bytes, maximum: 33554432
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- AutoFP mode using "Active Packets" flow load balancer
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- preallocated 1024 packets. Total memory 3508224
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- allocated 262144 bytes of memory for the host hash... 4096 buckets of size 64
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- preallocated 1000 hosts of size 88
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- host memory usage: 366144 bytes, maximum: 16777216
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- allocated 4194304 bytes of memory for the flow hash... 65536 buckets of size 64
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- preallocated 10000 flows of size 240
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- flow memory usage: 6674304 bytes, maximum: 33554432
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- IP reputation disabled
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- Added "35" classification types from the classification file
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- Added "19" reference types from the reference.config file
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- using magic-file /usr/share/misc/magic
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- Delayed detect disabled
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:06 - <info>-- 2 rule files processed. 3736 rules successfully loaded, 0 rules failed
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:07 - <info>-- 3736 signatures processed. 190 are IP-only rules, 1004 are inspecting packet payload, 2886 inspect application layer, 0 are decoder event only
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:07 - <info>-- building signature grouping structure, stage 1: preprocessing rules... complete
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:07 - <info>-- building signature grouping structure, stage 2: building source address list... complete
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:12 - <info>-- building signature grouping structure, stage 3: building destination address lists... complete
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:13 - <info>-- Threshold config parsed: 3 rule(s) found
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:13 - <info>-- Core dump size is unlimited.
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:13 - <info>-- alert-pf output device (regular) initialized: block.log
          22/9/2014 -- 10:54:13 - <error>-- [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_INVALID_ARGUMENTS(52)] - prefix or user NULL</error></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></notice> 
          

          running v2.0.2 on 2.1.5-RELEASE (amd64).

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            Trel
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            I checked this morning and my WAN interface monitoring was down, log looked like this

            
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <notice>-- This is Suricata version 2.0.3 RELEASE
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- CPUs/cores online: 1
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- Live rule reloads enabled
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- 'default' server has 'request-body-minimal-inspect-size' set to 33882 and 'request-body-inspect-window' set to 4053 after randomization.
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- 'default' server has 'response-body-minimal-inspect-size' set to 33695 and 'response-body-inspect-window' set to 4218 after randomization.
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- HTTP memcap: 67108864
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- DNS request flood protection level: 500
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- DNS per flow memcap (state-memcap): 524288
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- DNS global memcap: 16777216
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- allocated 786432 bytes of memory for the defrag hash... 65536 buckets of size 12
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- preallocated 65535 defrag trackers of size 100
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- defrag memory usage: 7339932 bytes, maximum: 33554432
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- AutoFP mode using "Active Packets" flow load balancer
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- preallocated 1024 packets. Total memory 2754560
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- allocated 262144 bytes of memory for the host hash... 4096 buckets of size 64
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- preallocated 1000 hosts of size 56
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- host memory usage: 326144 bytes, maximum: 16777216
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- allocated 4194304 bytes of memory for the flow hash... 65536 buckets of size 64
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- preallocated 10000 flows of size 156
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- flow memory usage: 5794304 bytes, maximum: 33554432
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- IP reputation disabled
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- Added "35" classification types from the classification file
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- Added "19" reference types from the reference.config file
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- using magic-file /usr/share/misc/magic
            20/9/2014 -- 23:37:34 - <info>-- Delayed detect disabled
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:04 - <info>-- 2 rule files processed. 14895 rules successfully loaded, 0 rules failed
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:04 - <info>-- 14896 signatures processed. 912 are IP-only rules, 4166 are inspecting packet payload, 11516 inspect application layer, 0 are decoder event only
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:04 - <info>-- building signature grouping structure, stage 1: preprocessing rules... complete
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:07 - <info>-- building signature grouping structure, stage 2: building source address list... complete
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:35 - <info>-- building signature grouping structure, stage 3: building destination address lists... complete
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- Threshold config parsed: 1 rule(s) found
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- Core dump size is unlimited.
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- fast output device (regular) initialized: alerts.log
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- Using 1 live device(s).
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- using interface nfe0
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- Running in 'auto' checksum mode. Detection of interface state will require 1000 packets.
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- Found an MTU of 1500 for 'nfe0'
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- Set snaplen to 1516 for 'nfe0'
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- RunModeIdsPcapAutoFp initialised
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- stream "prealloc-sessions": 32768 (per thread)
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- stream "memcap": 33554432
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- stream "midstream" session pickups: disabled
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- stream "async-oneside": disabled
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- stream "checksum-validation": disabled
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- stream."inline": disabled
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- stream "max-synack-queued": 5
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- stream.reassembly "memcap": 67108864
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- stream.reassembly "depth": 0
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- stream.reassembly "toserver-chunk-size": 2610
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- stream.reassembly "toclient-chunk-size": 2663
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- stream.reassembly.raw: enabled
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- segment pool: pktsize 4, prealloc 256
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- segment pool: pktsize 16, prealloc 512
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- segment pool: pktsize 112, prealloc 512
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- segment pool: pktsize 248, prealloc 512
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- segment pool: pktsize 512, prealloc 512
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- segment pool: pktsize 768, prealloc 1024
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- segment pool: pktsize 1448, prealloc 1024
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- segment pool: pktsize 65535, prealloc 128
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- stream.reassembly "chunk-prealloc": 250
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <notice>-- all 2 packet processing threads, 1 management threads initialized, engine started.
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <notice>-- Signal Received.  Stopping engine.
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- 0 new flows, 0 established flows were timed out, 0 flows in closed state
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- time elapsed 0.125s
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- (RxPcapnfe01) Packets 0, bytes 0
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- (RxPcapnfe01) Pcap Total:0 Recv:0 Drop:0 (nan%).
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- AutoFP - Total flow handler queues - 1
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- AutoFP - Queue 0  - pkts: 0            flows: 0           
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- Stream TCP processed 0 TCP packets
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- Fast log output wrote 0 alerts
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:46 - <info>-- host memory usage: 326144 bytes, maximum: 16777216
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:47 - <info>-- cleaning up signature grouping structure... complete
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:47 - <notice>-- Stats for 'nfe0':  pkts: 0, drop: 0 (nan%), invalid chksum: 0
            20/9/2014 -- 23:38:48 - <error>-- [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_DAEMON(87)] - Child died unexpectedly</error></notice></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></notice></notice></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></notice> 
            
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              DigitalDeviant
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              @DigitalDeviant:

              Well, it was running OK until sometime this AM when it seemingly randomly crashed and fails to restart. The only recent change to the system was enabling the DHCPv6 server, I disabled that again but it did not fix the issue.. Rebooting and reinstalling so far haven't helped. The only relevant error I found is at the end of the suricata.log below

              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <notice>-- This is Suricata version 2.0.3 RELEASE
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- CPUs/cores online: 4
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- Live rule reloads enabled
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- 'default' server has 'request-body-minimal-inspect-size' set to 33882 and 'request-body-inspect-window' set to 4053 after randomization.
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- 'default' server has 'response-body-minimal-inspect-size' set to 33695 and 'response-body-inspect-window' set to 4218 after randomization.
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- HTTP memcap: 67108864
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- DNS request flood protection level: 500
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- DNS per flow memcap (state-memcap): 524288
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- DNS global memcap: 16777216
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- allocated 1572864 bytes of memory for the defrag hash... 65536 buckets of size 24
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- preallocated 65535 defrag trackers of size 144
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- defrag memory usage: 11009904 bytes, maximum: 33554432
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- AutoFP mode using "Active Packets" flow load balancer
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- preallocated 1024 packets. Total memory 3508224
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- allocated 262144 bytes of memory for the host hash... 4096 buckets of size 64
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- preallocated 1000 hosts of size 88
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- host memory usage: 366144 bytes, maximum: 16777216
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- allocated 4194304 bytes of memory for the flow hash... 65536 buckets of size 64
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- preallocated 10000 flows of size 240
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- flow memory usage: 6674304 bytes, maximum: 33554432
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- IP reputation disabled
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- Added "35" classification types from the classification file
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- Added "19" reference types from the reference.config file
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- using magic-file /usr/share/misc/magic
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- Delayed detect disabled
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:06 - <info>-- 2 rule files processed. 3736 rules successfully loaded, 0 rules failed
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:07 - <info>-- 3736 signatures processed. 190 are IP-only rules, 1004 are inspecting packet payload, 2886 inspect application layer, 0 are decoder event only
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:07 - <info>-- building signature grouping structure, stage 1: preprocessing rules... complete
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:07 - <info>-- building signature grouping structure, stage 2: building source address list... complete
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:12 - <info>-- building signature grouping structure, stage 3: building destination address lists... complete
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:13 - <info>-- Threshold config parsed: 3 rule(s) found
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:13 - <info>-- Core dump size is unlimited.
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:13 - <info>-- alert-pf output device (regular) initialized: block.log
              22/9/2014 -- 10:54:13 - <error>-- [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_INVALID_ARGUMENTS(52)] - prefix or user NULL</error></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></notice> 
              

              running v2.0.2 on 2.1.5-RELEASE (amd64).

              Actually, my issue ended up being the IPV6 addresses of my DNS servers added to the pass list from "Add WAN DNS servers to the list." I guess it took a day or two to update the pass lists automatically since I re-enabled IPv6 for the first time in a few months a couple days ago and added the DNS servers shortly after.

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                bmeeks
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                @DigitalDeviant:

                @DigitalDeviant:

                Well, it was running OK until sometime this AM when it seemingly randomly crashed and fails to restart. The only recent change to the system was enabling the DHCPv6 server, I disabled that again but it did not fix the issue.. Rebooting and reinstalling so far haven't helped. The only relevant error I found is at the end of the suricata.log below

                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <notice>-- This is Suricata version 2.0.3 RELEASE
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- CPUs/cores online: 4
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- Live rule reloads enabled
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- 'default' server has 'request-body-minimal-inspect-size' set to 33882 and 'request-body-inspect-window' set to 4053 after randomization.
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- 'default' server has 'response-body-minimal-inspect-size' set to 33695 and 'response-body-inspect-window' set to 4218 after randomization.
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- HTTP memcap: 67108864
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- DNS request flood protection level: 500
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- DNS per flow memcap (state-memcap): 524288
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- DNS global memcap: 16777216
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- allocated 1572864 bytes of memory for the defrag hash... 65536 buckets of size 24
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- preallocated 65535 defrag trackers of size 144
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- defrag memory usage: 11009904 bytes, maximum: 33554432
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- AutoFP mode using "Active Packets" flow load balancer
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:02 - <info>-- preallocated 1024 packets. Total memory 3508224
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- allocated 262144 bytes of memory for the host hash... 4096 buckets of size 64
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- preallocated 1000 hosts of size 88
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- host memory usage: 366144 bytes, maximum: 16777216
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- allocated 4194304 bytes of memory for the flow hash... 65536 buckets of size 64
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- preallocated 10000 flows of size 240
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- flow memory usage: 6674304 bytes, maximum: 33554432
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- IP reputation disabled
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- Added "35" classification types from the classification file
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- Added "19" reference types from the reference.config file
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- using magic-file /usr/share/misc/magic
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:03 - <info>-- Delayed detect disabled
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:06 - <info>-- 2 rule files processed. 3736 rules successfully loaded, 0 rules failed
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:07 - <info>-- 3736 signatures processed. 190 are IP-only rules, 1004 are inspecting packet payload, 2886 inspect application layer, 0 are decoder event only
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:07 - <info>-- building signature grouping structure, stage 1: preprocessing rules... complete
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:07 - <info>-- building signature grouping structure, stage 2: building source address list... complete
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:12 - <info>-- building signature grouping structure, stage 3: building destination address lists... complete
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:13 - <info>-- Threshold config parsed: 3 rule(s) found
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:13 - <info>-- Core dump size is unlimited.
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:13 - <info>-- alert-pf output device (regular) initialized: block.log
                22/9/2014 -- 10:54:13 - <error>-- [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_INVALID_ARGUMENTS(52)] - prefix or user NULL</error></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></info></notice> 
                

                running v2.0.2 on 2.1.5-RELEASE (amd64).

                Actually, my issue ended up being the IPV6 addresses of my DNS servers added to the pass list from "Add WAN DNS servers to the list." I guess it took a day or two to update the pass lists automatically since I re-enabled IPv6 for the first time in a few months a couple days ago and added the DNS servers shortly after.

                Values in a PASS LIST are only updated with a Suricata restart.  They cannot be dynamically updated due to limitations within the Suricata binary.  So when you make a change to a PASS LIST, you must stop and restart Suricata for those changes to become active.  Could be that an overnight automatic rule update (assuming you have those enabled) finally restarted Suricata and it picked up something in the updated PASS LIST.  The rules update process only restarts Suricata if an actual rules package download and update is necessary (that is, the new rules have been posted by the rules vendor).

                Bill

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                  gogglespisano
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                  I have a new install of pfSense and Suricata.  This is the only version of Suricata I've used.

                  Services: Suricata 2.0.3 pkg v2.0.2 - Intrusion Detection System

                  2.1.5-RELEASE (amd64)
                  built on Mon Aug 25 07:44:45 EDT 2014
                  FreeBSD pfsense.bedrock 8.3-RELEASE-p16 FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p16 #0: Mon Aug 25 08:27:11 EDT 2014

                  I hit the CSV comma bug in block.log that I thought was fixed in the previous release, so I'm confused.

                  This is the entry in block.log

                  10/09/2014-21:10:46.431197,Block Src,1,2001972,17,ET SCAN Behavioral Unusually fast Terminal Server Traffic, Potential Scan or Infection (Inbound),Misc activity,3,TCP,124.232.152.37,18785
                  
                  

                  This is the error in the system log

                  php: /suricata/suricata_blocked.php: [suricata] Failed block.log entry fields are: Array ( [0] => 10/09/2014-21:10:46.431197 [1] => Block Src [2] => 1 [3] => 2001972 [4] => 17 [5] => ET SCAN Behavioral Unusually fast Terminal Server Traffic [6] => Potential Scan or Infection (Inbound) [7] => Misc activity [8] => 3 [9] => TCP [10] => 124.232.152.37 [11] => 18785 )
                  
                  

                  I do see alerts and blocks in the tabs, but the error keeps getting logged.  I deleted block.log and that fixed it for now, but I thought this wasn't supposed to happen again with this version?

                  -Stuart

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                    bmeeks
                    last edited by

                    @gogglespisano:

                    I have a new install of pfSense and Suricata.  This is the only version of Suricata I've used.

                    Services: Suricata 2.0.3 pkg v2.0.2 - Intrusion Detection System

                    2.1.5-RELEASE (amd64)
                    built on Mon Aug 25 07:44:45 EDT 2014
                    FreeBSD pfsense.bedrock 8.3-RELEASE-p16 FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p16 #0: Mon Aug 25 08:27:11 EDT 2014

                    I hit the CSV comma bug in block.log that I thought was fixed in the previous release, so I'm confused.

                    This is the entry in block.log

                    10/09/2014-21:10:46.431197,Block Src,1,2001972,17,ET SCAN Behavioral Unusually fast Terminal Server Traffic, Potential Scan or Infection (Inbound),Misc activity,3,TCP,124.232.152.37,18785
                    
                    

                    This is the error in the system log

                    php: /suricata/suricata_blocked.php: [suricata] Failed block.log entry fields are: Array ( [0] => 10/09/2014-21:10:46.431197 [1] => Block Src [2] => 1 [3] => 2001972 [4] => 17 [5] => ET SCAN Behavioral Unusually fast Terminal Server Traffic [6] => Potential Scan or Infection (Inbound) [7] => Misc activity [8] => 3 [9] => TCP [10] => 124.232.152.37 [11] => 18785 )
                    
                    

                    I do see alerts and blocks in the tabs, but the error keeps getting logged.  I deleted block.log and that fixed it for now, but I thought this wasn't supposed to happen again with this version?

                    -Stuart

                    Well, the error specifically fixed was in the ALERTS tab.  The BLOCKED tab gets its data from a log file that is still in CSV format.  I did put a hack in so it should not corrupt the HTML display, and it logs the offending entry to the system log as you see.  I will put this fix on my TODO list.

                    Bill

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                      gogglespisano
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                      Thanks Bill for the correction.  I missed the that distinction.  I now see the difference in the format of alerts.log and block.log.

                      Being new to pfSense and Suricata, I found the learning curve quite short and the product very good, a pleasant surprise for a firewall / IDS!

                      I do have a couple of feature suggestions.

                      It would be nice to be able to set the highest priority level to block.  I ended up suppressing some priority 3 rules so that I could enable blocking.  I'd rather still see/log most of those priority 3 alerts but have only priority 1 and 2 alerts cause blocks to be generated.

                      When installing the Snort VRT rules you need to enter the rules filename.  It took a while to find the filename to use and be confident I had the correct one (which turned out was the same as the GUI example).  In the release description of the change to add the filename field, there was a good explanation of why it was needed, where to get it and how frequently it would change.  It would be nice to capture that info into the GUI.

                      Thanks,
                      -Stuart

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                        bmeeks
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                        @gogglespisano:

                        Thanks Bill for the correction.  I missed the that distinction.  I now see the difference in the format of alerts.log and block.log.

                        Being new to pfSense and Suricata, I found the learning curve quite short and the product very good, a pleasant surprise for a firewall / IDS!

                        I do have a couple of feature suggestions.

                        It would be nice to be able to set the highest priority level to block.  I ended up suppressing some priority 3 rules so that I could enable blocking.  I'd rather still see/log most of those priority 3 alerts but have only priority 1 and 2 alerts cause blocks to be generated.

                        When installing the Snort VRT rules you need to enter the rules filename.  It took a while to find the filename to use and be confident I had the correct one (which turned out was the same as the GUI example).  In the release description of the change to add the filename field, there was a good explanation of why it was needed, where to get it and how frequently it would change.  It would be nice to capture that info into the GUI.

                        Thanks,
                        -Stuart

                        I intend to fix the Block log problem.  Might can sneak it into the next update.  If not, it will go in the following one.  That log is written by the custom blocking plugin I created for Suricata, so it's familiar territory for me.

                        I had actually thought about adding an option to block by priority.  If more folks are interested, I could add it.  I will see what I can do about the VRT filename.  The Sourcefire guys messed up a good thing when they discontinued their "edge" file that always contained the latest rule update.  The problem I face on the GUI is somewhat limited space, but maybe there is enough room without making it too cluttered to put a URL link to the rules file or something.

                        Bill

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                          fsansfil
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                          Related to the block.log… I get this only with long IPv6 address : ERROR: block.log entry failed to parse correctly with too many or not enough CSV entities, skipping this entry...

                          Oct 11 10:16:36 php-fpm[44596]: /suricata/suricata_blocked.php: [suricata] Failed block.log entry fields are: Array ( [0] => 10/09/2014-21:09:57.398584 [1] => Block Dst [2] => 1 [3] => 770058 [4] => 1 [5] => PB-PROTOCOL ICMP for IPv6 RFC 4443 [6] => RFC 4884 [7] => Detection of a Non-Standard Protocol or Event [8] => 2 [9] => IPV6-ICMP [10] => ff02:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001 [11] => 0 )
                          Oct 11 10:16:36 php-fpm[44596]: /suricata/suricata_blocked.php: [suricata] ERROR: block.log entry failed to parse correctly with too many or not enough CSV entities, skipping this entry…

                          F.

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                            @fsansfil:

                            Related to the block.log… I get this only with long IPv6 address : ERROR: block.log entry failed to parse correctly with too many or not enough CSV entities, skipping this entry...

                            Oct 11 10:16:36 php-fpm[44596]: /suricata/suricata_blocked.php: [suricata] Failed block.log entry fields are: Array ( [0] => 10/09/2014-21:09:57.398584 [1] => Block Dst [2] => 1 [3] => 770058 [4] => 1 [5] => PB-PROTOCOL ICMP for IPv6 RFC 4443 [6] => RFC 4884 [7] => Detection of a Non-Standard Protocol or Event [8] => 2 [9] => IPV6-ICMP [10] => ff02:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001 [11] => 0 )
                            Oct 11 10:16:36 php-fpm[44596]: /suricata/suricata_blocked.php: [suricata] ERROR: block.log entry failed to parse correctly with too many or not enough CSV entities, skipping this entry…

                            F.

                            Can you also post text from the ALERTS and BLOCK log for this exact event?  You can correlate the timestamp to be sure you get the exact event.  I'm working now on coding a fix for this problem on the BLOCK tab.  You can find these two files in the /var/log/suricata subdirectory for the interface, or you can go to the LOGS VIEW tab and select the interface and log file to view.

                            Bill

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                              simby
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                              bmeeks: do we have plane to update to suricata 2.0.4 or 2.1 ? :)

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                                gogglespisano
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                                Bill, can you change the blocks tab to show most recent first like the alerts tab?

                                -Stuart

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                                  @gogglespisano:

                                  Bill, can you change the blocks tab to show most recent first like the alerts tab?

                                  -Stuart

                                  The column headers are sortable. Just click on any one of the headers.

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                                    gogglespisano
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                                    @BBcan177:

                                    @gogglespisano:

                                    Bill, can you change the blocks tab to show most recent first like the alerts tab?

                                    -Stuart

                                    The column headers are sortable. Just click on any one of the headers.

                                    There's no "Date" column on Blocks like there is on "Alerts", so nothing to click to get most recent first.

                                    I have auto refresh turned on, so having the default would be nice since the column sort doesn't stick through an auto refresh.

                                    What is the default sort order of the Blocks?  It seems mostly "recent last", but the first part of the list doesn't quite match that.  Is it ordered by "earliest seen last"?  (I have a 1hr expiration on blocks)

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                                      fsansfil
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                                      Logs rotated from that event, but heres a new one, same error and this time not from a custom rule.

                                      Cheers.

                                      sys.log

                                      Oct 12 14:10:11	php-fpm[5131]: /suricata/suricata_blocked.php: [suricata] Failed block.log entry fields are: Array ( [0] => 10/11/2014-21:27:04.782000 [1] => Block Src [2] => 1 [3] => 22 [4] => 1 [5] => FILE pdf claimed [6] => but not pdf [7] => (null) [8] => 3 [9] => TCP [10] => 128.119.103.XXX [11] => 80 )
                                      Oct 12 14:10:11	php-fpm[5131]: /suricata/suricata_blocked.php: [suricata] ERROR: block.log entry failed to parse correctly with too many or not enough CSV entities, skipping this entry...
                                      

                                      alert.log

                                      10/11/2014-21:27:04.782000  [**] [1:22:1] FILE pdf claimed, but not pdf [**] [Classification: (null)] [Priority: 3] {TCP} 128.119.103.XXX:80 -> 192.168.1.XXX:47798
                                      

                                      block.log

                                      10/11/2014-21:27:04.782000,Block Src,1,22,1,FILE pdf claimed, but not pdf,(null),3,TCP,128.119.103.XXX,80
                                      

                                      rule

                                      alert http any any -> any any (msg:"FILE pdf claimed, but not pdf"; flow:established,to_client; fileext:"pdf"; filemagic:!"PDF document"; filestore; sid:22; rev:1;)
                                      
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                                        bmeeks
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                                        @fsansfil:

                                        Logs rotated from that event, but heres a new one, same error and this time not from a custom rule.

                                        Cheers.

                                        sys.log

                                        Oct 12 14:10:11	php-fpm[5131]: /suricata/suricata_blocked.php: [suricata] Failed block.log entry fields are: Array ( [0] => 10/11/2014-21:27:04.782000 [1] => Block Src [2] => 1 [3] => 22 [4] => 1 [5] => FILE pdf claimed [6] => but not pdf [7] => (null) [8] => 3 [9] => TCP [10] => 128.119.103.XXX [11] => 80 )
                                        Oct 12 14:10:11	php-fpm[5131]: /suricata/suricata_blocked.php: [suricata] ERROR: block.log entry failed to parse correctly with too many or not enough CSV entities, skipping this entry...
                                        

                                        alert.log

                                        10/11/2014-21:27:04.782000  [**] [1:22:1] FILE pdf claimed, but not pdf [**] [Classification: (null)] [Priority: 3] {TCP} 128.119.103.XXX:80 -> 192.168.1.XXX:47798
                                        

                                        block.log

                                        10/11/2014-21:27:04.782000,Block Src,1,22,1,FILE pdf claimed, but not pdf,(null),3,TCP,128.119.103.XXX,80
                                        

                                        rule

                                        alert http any any -> any any (msg:"FILE pdf claimed, but not pdf"; flow:established,to_client; fileext:"pdf"; filemagic:!"PDF document"; filestore; sid:22; rev:1;)
                                        

                                        I'm working on the fix, but this is really just a cosmetic error.  The custom module that inserts a block also writes some of the fields provided by the Suricata alert module to a log file (the block.log file).  To make it easy to parse in PHP, I configured the blocking module to separate those Suricata fields with commas.  PHP has a built-in function for reading a CSV text file and placing each field into an array.  This technique has been used for ages in the Snort package.  However, in Suricata an unforeseen problem popped up because a tiny handful of the text rules have embedded commas in the rule message.  That messes up the CSV parser because it expects the 11 fields of data to be delimited by commas.  When you have extra commas as part of the data of a field, the CSV parser winds up presenting PHP with 12, 13 or possibly more fields.  That messes up the order in which the BLOCK tab code expects the fields to be in.

                                        I have a fix working in my test lab and hope to push it out soon for the pfSense developers to review and hopefully approve.

                                        Bill

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                                          fsansfil
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                                          Hey Bill,

                                          Thanks again. Another question; I dont understand how the SID MGMT works.

                                          Lets say I want to remove the fast_pattern:only from those SID 31944,29895,28807,28406,14081,21474,26722

                                          I then edit the modifysid-sample.conf and add:
                                          31944,29895,28807,28406,14081,21474,26722 "fast_pattern:only; " ""

                                          Then select the proper interface (LAN) in the Interface SID Management File Assignements and select modify-sample.conf under Modify SID File, click save and nothing happens ;(

                                          Please let me know what I doing wrong.

                                          Thanks!

                                          F.

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                                            BBcan177 Moderator
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                                            Hi fsansfil,

                                            I would suggest you make a new modify-sid (and enable/disable sid also) because if you use the "Sample" Ones, they will be overwritten when you do any re-install or Package Updates.

                                            Did you click the "Rebuild" Checkboxes beside the Interface Names?

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