[Oisf-users] decoder.invalid count

[Andreas Moe]

Have you tried performing a tcpdump / tshark capture of the live traffic
alongside the realtime analyzed traffic? 1) Send traffic to Suricata,
collects stats for 30min, 2) At the same time perform dump of network
traffic to disk and analyze to see if the same discrepancies are found
there? With that fullcapture, you could also look into what kind of
protocols the network link is acctualy sending (if this is not 100% known
from before).

Haven't worked with that high MTUs in Suricata before, so dont have any
personal experience to say that that could or could not be an issue.

Someone else might probably have a better answer than this, sorry :)

2015-11-23 16:30 GMT+01:00 Spransy, Derek <dsprans at emory.edu>:

> Hello all,
>
>
> I'm troubleshooting a very high decoder.invalid count on my sensor; nearly
> 35%. My kernel drop count is less than 1% and we seem to be generating
> about the number of alerts that I would expect. I'm not able to find much
> in the way of documentation that explains what may lead to a packet being
> marked as invalid in Suricata. The only thing I've found so far is advice
> to make sure that the interface MTU and Suricata.yaml MTU settings match
> (which they do) and ensure that the MTU is large enough for packets being
> seen on that interface (it is). I even tried to increase the MTU to 9026
> without any difference. Can anyone point me in the direction of other
> factors that could be at work here?
>
>
> Thanks
>
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