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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>When using af-packet mode, you set the pair of interfaces used in that section of the suricata.yaml file and not in the command line to invoke suricata.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>suricata -c /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml --af-packet<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>See https://home.regit.org/2012/09/new-af_packet-ips-mode-in-suricata/.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> oisf-users-bounces@lists.openinfosecfoundation.org [mailto:oisf-users-bounces@lists.openinfosecfoundation.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Todd Howe<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 26, 2015 9:33 AM<br><b>To:</b> oisf-users@lists.openinfosecfoundation.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Oisf-users] Can't coax Suricata to listen on ETH1 exclusively<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hello list;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>New user here. I’ve installed Suricata on a Debian Jessie VM in a small testbed I’m setting up. The VM has two NICs, ETH0: on a noisy VSphere network 192.168.10.x for shelling in and internet access, and ETH1: which is in my test subnet. Ifconfig and ping confirm that these NICs are both up.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I can’t get Suricata to stop listening on ETH0: and to listen _only_ on ETH1: (If it’s relevant, I’ve set it to af-packet mode in /etc/default/suricata to avoid the check_nfqueue() bug)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve tried the following:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- starting it up with the command ‘suricata -c /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml -i eth1’ as the docs advise<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- changing every instance of ‘- interface: eth0’ in /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml to ‘- interface: eth1’<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- setting IFACE=eth1 in /etc/default/suricata despite the comment saying it’s only for pcap because, well, I’m out of ideas<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The logs fill up with garbage from ETH0: What could I be missing?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Todd<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>