[Oisf-users] Reg Decoder Vlan Unknown Type

Victor Julien lists at inliniac.net
Fri May 13 14:57:27 UTC 2016


On 13-05-16 16:55, Murali Kandula wrote:
> I am observing the stat decoder.vlan.unknown_type gets incrementing to
> huge value. Regarding this stat I have some questions:
> 
> 1) Why the suricata is failed to decode those vlans?

Decoding of these types is simply not yet implemented.

> 2) Does that mean suricata will not process those packets?

Not fully, no.

> 3) Will this count increment results in any kind of issues regarding the
> extraction?.

That is certainly possible.

If you can share a pcap with this traffic I'll have a look at adding
support for the type(s).

Cheers,
Victor

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