<div dir="ltr">Quick question regarding flowbit usage. <br>Does suricata loads rules with missing flowbit:set and/or flowbit:isset? <br><br><div>I know snort outputs warnings when one verification is missing. <div>flowbits key 'X' is set but not ever checked. (flowbits:isset)</div><div>flowbits key 'Y' is checked but not ever set. (flowbit:set)</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure if these rule are still loaded when running Suricata starts or if they are skipped.<br><br>Thanks!<br><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-10-18 11:11 GMT+02:00 Victor Julien <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@inliniac.net" target="_blank">lists@inliniac.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 18-10-16 07:56, Amin Saba wrote:<br>
> Are there any artificial limits on the maximum number of flows an<br>
> instance of suricata can handle?<br>
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</span>The only limit is your flow.memcap setting or your available memory,<br>
which ever comes first.<br>
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Performance will depend on your hash table size.<br>
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> What about the number of flowbits/flowints defined over those flows?<br>
<br>
</span>This is only limited by available memory.<br>
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