[Snort-users] Snort read a incremental file
Felix Erlacher
felix.erlacher at ...17726...
Mon Jan 30 10:54:37 EST 2017
Hi Paul,
I would naively assume that Snort reads them one after another in the
same order it would read normal files.
greets
felix
On 30/01/17 16:42, Paul Li wrote:
> Thanks Felix. That works well for my issue. Much appreciated.
>
> A follow up question: if I have a multiple pipes like this one, would
> there be any order how snort reads them?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
> On Saturday, January 28, 2017, Felix Erlacher <felix.erlacher at ...17726...
> <mailto:felix.erlacher at ...17726...>> wrote:
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> On a decent OS you can write pcap data to a named pipe and make snort
> read form that named pipe. That might be a solution in your case.
>
> Example on Debian:
> #mkfifo mypipe
> than make your program write data to that file, and with snort simply
> #snort -c snort.conf -r ./mypipe
>
> greets
>
> felix
>
> On 28/01/17 14:52, Paul Li wrote:
> > I've got a pcap file that keep adding new network data. I know
> Snort can
> > read a file, but is there a way Snort can read the continuously added
> > data to the file?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Paul
> >
> >
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