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Subject: RE: [snort] Back home....
From: Mullen, Patrick (Patrick.MullenGD-CS.COM)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 08:35:28 CST


> "Alert occurred so start logging". The other method would require
> complexities that I'm not prepared to think about at 1:15AM. A
> read-ahead/read-back buffer concept is something that may be
> doable, but
> I think the performance hit that the system would take as a
> result would
> be pretty severe.

Now that I think about it, I think the best solution to what
I was thinking would probably be to log everything then have
some helper utility go back and clean up your logs nightly.

>
> Plus, how many packets do you keep in a "window"?

Sounds like a configuration option to me. :)

~Patrick