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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/12/2012 20:56, Steve Marotta
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there a way to run Snort in NIDS
mode on large (>500MB) pcap dumps? When I try to run
snort –dev –l (mylog) –r (myfile) –c /etc/snort.conf, I
get, “Value too large for defined data type” and “ERROR:
Error getting pcaps”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is this because the file I’m reading is
too large? If so, is there a workaround?<o:p></o:p></p>
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Have you tried tcpreplay to an interface that snort is listening on?<br>
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