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This is Suricata version 3.2beta1 RELEASE<br/>
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<div>/opt/suricata/bin/suricata -c /opt/suricata/etc/suricata/suricata.yaml -k none -r $PCAP -S $FILE</div>
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<div>I've been testing out Suricata for a little bit now and I've noticed some inconsistent results from alerts in the fast.log file. When I read in a pcap using -r I end up with a total alert count of 68-72 alerts in the file. I have been using the same PCAP file and same rules duing each test. I pulled some information from the stats.log file and noticed along with the detect.alert changing, some of the other values changed. I would think that reading in a PCAP would result in the same information each time. Is this typical, an error, or just some kind of misconfiguration in the suricata.yaml fille.</div>
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<div>Also, I added --simulated-ips to the command line option and on the same PCAP and rules file I end up with 128-132 alerts. It still varies the same way as before but there's a much greater number of alerts, any ideas?</div>
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Date: 3/14/2017 -- 09:12:45 (uptime: 0d, 00h 00m 00s)</div>
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detect.alert | Total | 68</div>
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<div>app_layer.flow.http | Total | 62<br/>
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<div>flow.spare | Total | 9996<br/>
flow_mgr.flows_checked | Total | 23<br/>
flow_mgr.flows_notimeout | Total | 23<br/>
flow_mgr.rows_checked | Total | 65536<br/>
flow_mgr.rows_skipped | Total | 65513<br/>
flow_mgr.rows_maxlen | Total | 1<br/>
tcp.memuse | Total | 819200<br/>
tcp.reassembly_memuse | Total | 12320544<br/>
flow.memuse | Total | 7175616<br/>
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<div>Date: 3/14/2017 -- 09:50:02 (uptime: 0d, 00h 00m 00s)<br/>
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<div>detect.alert | Total | 72<br/>
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<div>app_layer.flow.http | Total | 64</div>
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<div>flow.spare | Total | 9995<br/>
flow_mgr.flows_checked | Total | 19<br/>
flow_mgr.flows_notimeout | Total | 19<br/>
flow_mgr.rows_checked | Total | 65536<br/>
flow_mgr.rows_skipped | Total | 65517<br/>
flow_mgr.rows_maxlen | Total | 1<br/>
tcp.memuse | Total | 819200<br/>
tcp.reassembly_memuse | Total | 12320544<br/>
flow.memuse | Total | 7180056</div>
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<div>Thanks!<br/>
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