[Snort-users] 2.0 GB Max file size on linux packet captures

[Erek Adams]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Scott Williams (Network) wrote:

> When I do tcpdump or snort packet captures to disk, I keep hitting a max
> file size of 2GB. I've tried different versions of RedHat. From web
> searches, it seems like I need to enable Large File Support (LFS), but
> this doesn't seem well documented or supported.
>
> Does anyone have experience doing this or is there a linux distro that
> defaults to LFS?

Sure.  It's called "Solaris" or "OpenBSD".  ;-)

	http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html

(All your answers belong to Google)

Cheers!

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Erek Adams

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