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<p class="MsoNormal">I used the following installation guide to install pf_ring and suricata. Everything seems to work great. However, after restarting the machine, I get the following error when restarting suricata;<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[ERRCODE: SC_ERR_PF_RING_OPEN(34)] - opening eth1 failed: pfring_open error<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Did I skip some sort of initialization at boot or something? Is there an easy fix that I’m not seeing? Starting and restarting suricata worked perfectly before the system reboot.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"">Jason A. Smith<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"">Commonwealth Service Desk: (502) 564-7576<br>
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