<![CDATA[Snort and 2.1]]>I have installed snort on pfsense 2.1 and I had enabled rules and now I am getting this error snort[81480]: FATAL ERROR: /usr/local/etc/snort/snort_45166_bge1/rules/snort.rules(26) Undefined variable in the string: $EXTERNAL_NET. Is anyone running snort on pfsense 2.1 and how i can fix this error

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/52931/snort-and-2-1RSS for NodeWed, 15 Jul 2026 16:45:08 GMTSun, 10 Feb 2013 19:56:53 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Snort and 2.1 on Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:44:14 GMT]]>Normally yes the fix is https://github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense-packages/commit/c81902f92799a1f566667f8fae07ecb92069372f

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/378311https://forum.netgate.com/post/378311Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:44:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snort and 2.1 on Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:22:18 GMT]]>I tryied it nothing had changed. is the new package uploaded ?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/378282https://forum.netgate.com/post/378282Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:22:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snort and 2.1 on Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:41:40 GMT]]>Just reinstall should be fixed.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/378231https://forum.netgate.com/post/378231Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:41:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snort and 2.1 on Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:45:38 GMT]]>I after looking at my var HOME_NET  it contained /, and removing it allowed me to start snort.
Does anyone know how to fix this permanently ?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/378190https://forum.netgate.com/post/378190Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:45:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snort and 2.1 on Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:57:12 GMT]]>I removed snort and reinstalled and I get Invalid ip_list to 'ignore_scanners' option

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