Hi Doug

On Jun 1, 2013, at 6:59 AM, Doug Burks <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I recently packaged PF_RING 5.5.3 for my Security Onion distro:
> http://securityonion.blogspot.com/2013/05/pfring-553-packages-now-available.html
> 
> Perhaps I'm missing something, but I'm seeing some behavior I don't
> remember seeing in 5.5.2 or previous versions of PF_RING.
> 
> Here are my testing parameters:
> - starting off with a good test, if I run just one instance of snort,
> I get an alert from rule 2100498 for EACH time I run "curl
> testmyids.com"
> - if I increase to two instances of snort with the same cluster-id, I
> get NO alerts when running "curl testmyids.com"
> - if I set the daq clustermode to 2, I get NO alerts when running
> "curl testmyids.com".  (Does clustermode default to 2 if not
> specified?)
yes this is the default
> - if I set the daq clustermode to 4, I get an alert for EVERY OTHER
> "curl testmyids.com" (if I do 10 curl's, I only get 5 alerts).


I am not a snort expert but the default is per IP balancing so it must work, 
otherwise we have a bug. I suggest you to capture traffic with an app such as 
pfdump that is cluster aware and see what traffic the app received

Regards Luca
> 
> Here are the PF_RING entries in my snort.conf including the
> clustermode variable that I'm testing:
> config daq: pfring
> config daq_dir: /opt/pfring/lib/daq
> config daq_var: clusterid=51
> #config daq_var: clustermode=4
> 
> Here are my snort command lines:
> 
> snort -c /etc/nsm/HOSTNAME-eth1/snort.conf -u sguil -g sguil -i eth1
> -F /etc/nsm/HOSTNAME-eth1/bpf-ids.conf -l
> /nsm/sensor_data/HOSTNAME-eth1/snort-1 --perfmon-file
> /nsm/sensor_data/HOSTNAME-eth1/snort-1.stats -U -m 112
> 
> snort -c /etc/nsm/HOSTNAME-eth1/snort.conf -u sguil -g sguil -i eth1
> -F /etc/nsm/HOSTNAME-eth1/bpf-ids.conf -l
> /nsm/sensor_data/HOSTNAME-eth1/snort-2 --perfmon-file
> /nsm/sensor_data/HOSTNAME-eth1/snort-2.stats -U -m 112
> 
> Have I missed something?  Has anybody else experienced this?  What can
> I do to troubleshoot this?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --
> Doug Burks
> http://securityonion.blogspot.com
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