[Oisf-users] vlan on bond if problem

Geert Alberghs alberghs.g at gmail.com
Tue May 22 08:09:58 UTC 2012


Hi Victor,

Works like a charm now, including the large ruleset. We had the following
in our yaml before:

 - interface: bond0
   bpf-filter: "not vlan"
 - interface: vlan411

I suppose that the problem is bpf interpretation via the command-line?

Gtz

Geert

On 21 May 2012 17:19, Victor Julien <victor at inliniac.net> wrote:

> On 05/21/2012 05:14 PM, Geert Alberghs wrote:
> > Hi Victor,
> >
> > Thanks for your quick reply. I tried: suricata -c
> > /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml -S /dev/null -i bond0 -i vlan411 "not vlan"
> >
> > It produces the following error in suricata.log:
> >
> > 21/5/2012 -- 17:07:32 - <Error> - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_BPF(125)] - bpf
> > compilation error illegal token: ���
> > 21/5/2012 -- 17:07:32 - <Error> - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_THREAD_INIT(49)] -
> > thread "RecvPcap-bond0" closed on initialization.
> > 21/5/2012 -- 17:07:32 - <Error> - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_INITIALIZATION(45)] -
> > Engine initialization failed, aborting...
>
> You can enter the bpf filter also in the yaml file for each interface,
> could you give that a try?
>
> pcap:
>  - interface: bond0
>    bpf-filter: "not vlan"
>  - interface: vlan411
>    bpf-filter: "not vlan"
>
> Cheers,
> Victor
>
> > gdb gives the same error messages.
> >
> > 21/5/2012 -- 17:12:36 - <Error> - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_THREAD_INIT(49)] -
> > thread "RecvPcap-vlan41" closed on initialization.
> > 21/5/2012 -- 17:12:36 - <Error> - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_INITIALIZATION(45)] -
> > Engine initialization failed, aborting...
> > [Thread 0x7fffec34d700 (LWP 18314) exited]
> > [Thread 0x7fffe9347700 (LWP 18320) exited]
> > [Thread 0x7fffe9b48700 (LWP 18319) exited]
> > [Thread 0x7fffea349700 (LWP 18318) exited]
> > [Thread 0x7fffe8b46700 (LWP 18321) exited]
> > [Thread 0x7fffeab4a700 (LWP 18317) exited]
> > [Thread 0x7fffeb34b700 (LWP 18316) exited]
> > [Thread 0x7fffebb4c700 (LWP 18315) exited]
> > [Thread 0x7fffecb4e700 (LWP 18313) exited]
> > [Thread 0x7fffed34f700 (LWP 18312) exited]
> > [Thread 0x7fffedb50700 (LWP 18311) exited]
> > [Thread 0x7fffee351700 (LWP 18310) exited]
> > [Thread 0x7fffeed68700 (LWP 18309) exited]
> > [Thread 0x7fffef569700 (LWP 18308) exited]
> > [Thread 0x7fffefd6a700 (LWP 18307) exited]
> > [Thread 0x7ffff48d4700 (LWP 18306) exited]
> > [Thread 0x7ffff536a700 (LWP 18305) exited]
> > [Thread 0x7ffff636c700 (LWP 18303) exited]
> > [Thread 0x7fffe8345700 (LWP 18322) exited]
> >
> > Gtz
> >
> > Geert
> >
> > On 21 May 2012 16:59, Victor Julien <victor at inliniac.net
> > <mailto:victor at inliniac.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 05/21/2012 04:50 PM, Geert Alberghs wrote:
> >     > Hello,
> >     >
> >     > when using the following command to launch suricata:
> >     >
> >     > *exec suricata -D --pidfile /var/run/suricata.pid -c
> >     > /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml -i bond0 -i vlan411 "not vlan"*
> >     >
> >     > Suricata starts normally, analyses the rules, loads them etc. But
> >     a few
> >     > moments after this the process stops without any notification in
> >     > suricata.log.
> >     >
> >     > When the same command is launched but without the vlan interfaces,
> >     > everything works fine. Is there a multi-interfaces problem or a
> vlan
> >     > untagging problem, I don't know.
> >     >
> >     > The reason why the vlan's are used is because of mirroring
> limitations
> >     > in a particular switch: all incoming traffic on the mirror port is
> in
> >     > the default vlan, all outgoing in vlan 411.
> >     >
> >     > gdb output for *suricata -c /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml -i bond0 -i
> >     > vlan411 "not vlan"*:
> >     >
> >     > 21/5/2012 -- 15:54:48 - <Info> - 15 rule files processed. 41435
> rules
> >     > succesfully loaded, 0 rules failed
> >     > 21/5/2012 -- 15:56:45 - <Info> - 42631 signatures processed. 1809
> are
> >     > IP-only rules, 37788 are inspecting packet payload, 13120 inspect
> >     > application layer, 0 are decoder event only
> >     > 21/5/2012 -- 15:56:45 - <Info> - building signature grouping
> >     structure,
> >     > stage 1: adding signatures to signature source addresses...
> complete
> >     > 21/5/2012 -- 15:56:50 - <Info> - building signature grouping
> >     structure,
> >     > stage 2: building source address list... complete
> >     > 21/5/2012 -- 15:56:55 - <Info> - building signature grouping
> >     structure,
> >     > stage 3: building destination address lists... complete
> >     > 21/5/2012 -- 15:57:10 - <Info> - Threshold config parsed: 5
> >     rule(s) found
> >     > 21/5/2012 -- 15:57:10 - <Info> - Core dump size set to unlimited.
> >     > 21/5/2012 -- 15:57:10 - <Info> - fast output device (regular)
> >     > initialized: fast.log
> >     > 21/5/2012 -- 15:57:10 - <Info> - Unified2-alert initialized:
> filename
> >     > unified2.alert, limit 32 MB
> >     > 21/5/2012 -- 15:57:10 - <Info> - http-log output device (regular)
> >     > initialized: http.log
> >     > 21/5/2012 -- 15:57:10 - <Info> - Using 2 live device(s).
> >     > 21/5/2012 -- 15:57:10 - <Info> - BPF filter set from command line
> >     or via
> >     > old 'bpf-filter' option.
> >     > [New Thread 0x7ffff636c700 (LWP 9636)]
> >     > 21/5/2012 -- 15:57:10 - <Info> - BPF filter set from command line
> >     or via
> >     > old 'bpf-filter' option.
> >     > 21/5/2012 -- 15:57:10 - <Info> - using interface bond0
> >     > 21/5/2012 -- 15:57:10 - <Info> - Running in 'auto' checksum mode.
> >     > Detection of interface state will require 1000 packets.
> >     > [New Thread 0x7ffff5b6b700 (LWP 9637)]
> >     > 21/5/2012 -- 15:57:10 - <Info> - using interface vlan411
> >     > 21/5/2012 -- 15:57:10 - <Info> - Running in 'auto' checksum mode.
> >     > Detection of interface state will require 1000 packets.
> >     > [New Thread 0x7ffff536a700 (LWP 9638)]
> >     > [New Thread 0x7ffff4b69700 (LWP 9640)]
> >     >
> >     > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> >     > [Switching to Thread 0x7ffff4b69700 (LWP 9640)]
> >     > 0x00007ffff69c06da in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> >     > (gdb) btµ
> >     > Invalid character '�' in expression.
> >     > (gdb) bt
> >     > #0  0x00007ffff69c06da in ?? () from
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> >     > #1  0x00007ffff69c1f72 in ?? () from
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> >     > #2  0x00007ffff69c4e1e in malloc () from
> >     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> >     > #3  0x00000000004fd054 in PmqSetup ()
> >     > #4  0x00000000004402e8 in DetectEngineThreadCtxInit ()
> >     > #5  0x0000000000435b17 in DetectThreadInit ()
> >     > #6  0x000000000056d1ed in TmThreadsSlot1 ()
> >     > #7  0x00007ffff713fd8c in start_thread () from
> >     > /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
> >     > #8  0x00007ffff6a2ec2d in clone () from
> >     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> >     > #9  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> >     >
> >     > Any idea where the problem might reside?
> >
> >     The segv is in the per detection thread set up code. It may be
> related
> >     to the high number of rules you run. Could you try running without
> rules
> >     just to test?
> >
> >     suricata -c /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml -S /dev/null -i bond0 -i
> vlan411
> >     "not vlan
> >
> >     -S overrides the rule files from the yaml, in this case it loads
> >     dev/null which means it loads no rules.
> >
> >     --
> >     ---------------------------------------------
> >     Victor Julien
> >     http://www.inliniac.net/
> >     PGP: http://www.inliniac.net/victorjulien.asc
> >     ---------------------------------------------
> >
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>
>
> --
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> Victor Julien
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