[Snort-users] Re: [Snort-devel] problems with snort reading from stdin
Chris Green
cmg at ...671...
Wed Oct 17 18:35:19 EDT 2001
<tlewis at ...468...> writes:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Chris Green wrote:
>
>> Theres no reason I can think of to use tcpdump and snort in a pipe
>> together.
>
> You could be pulling a large tcpdump file from, say, a network
> connection and not have enough space or time to store it on disk
> locally first.
and you've not got a copy of snort on the machine that first had a
copy of the tcpdump file. That said, you've come up with a
theoretical situation that I missed although I doubt there was that
netcat-like streaming situation by the origninal poster
:-)
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Chris Green <cmg at ...671...>
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