From: James Lay (jlayslave-tothe-box.net)
Date: Thu May 02 2013 - 07:10:09 CDT

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Quotation marks may be needed…try appending via command line as well.

James

On May 2, 2013, at 5:50 AM, Seth Dunn <sethd2ms.com> wrote:

> What is DAQ? I have seen that, but have no idea what that is.
> As far as my bpf file goes, if it is like this::
>
> #not net 10.10.0.0/24 and not net 10.30.0.0/24
> not net 10.10.0.0/24 and dst host 10.75.45.1 && dst port 80 or not net 10.30.0.0/24 and dst host 10.75.45.1 && dst port 80
>
> It will fail with::
> Reading filter from bpf file: D:\Snort\etc\ignore2.bpf
> ERROR: short read D:\Snort\etc\ignore2.bpf (169 != 170)
> Fatal Error, Quitting..
>
> If I remove the commented line, then snort starts fine.
> If I try to have multiple lines in the file, (all being rules, no comments) the it will fail with a similar error as above.
> I have never seen a DAQ error.
>
> From: Russ Combs [mailto:rcombssourcefire.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 12:08 AM
> To: waldo kitty
> Cc: snort-userslists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Network Variables
>
> Snort does allow comments in the BPF file, starting with # to end of line. If there is a syntax error, you should see something like:
>
> ERROR: Can't set DAQ BPF filter to '
> ...
> ' (pcap_daq_set_filter: pcap_compile: syntax error)!
> Fatal Error, Quitting..
>
> What DAQ are you using? Please send the BPF file that fails and the error that you get.
>
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:07 PM, waldo kitty <wkitty42windstream.net> wrote:
> On 5/1/2013 13:09, Seth Dunn wrote:
> > But any ideas why snort fails to start if I add in a '#' to comment a
> > line??
>
> i have no clue but it sounds like a coding error not allowing comment lines i
> the BPF file... only joel or one of the snort dev guys can tell us that... or
> possibly a code diver who can root around in the snort code ;)
>
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