From: Poppi, Sandro (Sandro.Poppiwacker.com)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2004 - 07:15:04 CST

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Hi Tony,

I would suggest running through your snort.conf and searching for "decode"
(without the quotes) somewhere after preprocessor stream4. Seems to me that
a typo has made it accidently into the file.

So long,
Sandro
>
> Hi,
>
> Just upgraded my Unstable Debian System. Snort upgraded to
> 2.1.0 (Build 9).
> Since this upgrade i have the FATAL error :
>
> titine:/etc/snort# /usr/sbin/snort -T -c /etc/snort/snort.conf
> ...
>
> No arguments to frag2 directive, setting defaults to:
> Fragment timeout: 60 seconds
> Fragment memory cap: 4194304 bytes
> Fragment min_ttl: 0
> Fragment ttl_limit: 5
> Fragment Problems: 0
> Self preservation threshold: 500
> Self preservation period: 90
> Suspend threshold: 1000
> Suspend period: 30
> Stream4 config:
> Stateful inspection: ACTIVE
> Session statistics: INACTIVE
> Session timeout: 30 seconds
> Session memory cap: 8388608 bytes
> State alerts: INACTIVE
> Evasion alerts: INACTIVE
> Scan alerts: ACTIVE
> Log Flushed Streams: INACTIVE
> MinTTL: 1
> TTL Limit: 5
> Async Link: 0
> State Protection: 0
> Self preservation threshold: 50
> Self preservation period: 90
> Suspend threshold: 200
> Suspend period: 30
> Stream4_reassemble config:
> Server reassembly: INACTIVE
> Client reassembly: ACTIVE
> Reassembler alerts: ACTIVE
> Zero out flushed packets: INACTIVE
> flush_data_diff_size: 500
> Ports: 21 23 25 53 80 110 111 143 513 1433
> Emergency Ports: 21 23 25 53 80 110 111 143 513 1433
> ERROR: unknown preprocessor "à_decode"
> Fatal Error, Quitting..
>
> Recently , i just added some preprocessor portscan-ignorehosts, and
> preprocessor portscan2-ignorehosts directive in my config file. Think
> nothing to do with the error "a_decode"
>
> Some library version information on the system :
> gcc version 3.3.3 20031229 (prerelease) (Debian)
> libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> and Timezone
> libc6-dev 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Development
> Libraries and Hea
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
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