[Oisf-users] Clarification on dropped packet counters

Victor Julien victor at inliniac.net
Mon Aug 22 09:55:09 UTC 2011


On 08/10/2011 10:31 PM, Fernando Ortiz wrote:
> Thank you both for the answers. There is an option in suricata.yaml
> "checksum_validation: yes #Validate packet checksum, reject packets with
> invalid checksums."
> 
> Are Wrong checksums packets dropped and registered by
> (ReceivePcapThreadExitStats)or (ReceiveNFQThreadExitStats)?

No. The stats displayed there are from what libpcap reports to us. The
checksum drops inside suricata are separate from that.

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