I got this pointer to fix a problem with snort. Does this also apply to nessus?
Dave. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Help needed: Performance Check & Traffic Capture Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 10:11:17 -0600 From: David Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Phil Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erek Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Marc Dreher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, that works fine. Does anyone know if this fix is why nessus supplies its own version of the libpcap libraries? Dave. > > [...snip...] > > > > If it's Linux based, check the archives from the snort-dev list at > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ for some patches provided by Phil Wood > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to make libpcap + Linux 2.4(?) play nice. > > Hi, the pcap library is fixed at tcpdump.org. Pull down the current > library: > > http://www.tcpdump.org:80/daily/libpcap-current.tar.gz > > It has the fix to pcap_stats. It does not have the "turbo" patches > which use a ring buffer. I have that in a different tarball which > I'm still not 100% sure about. If you get the above working and > would like to try something even more bizarre, drop me an email. > > Phil ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >
