[Oisf-users] Hyperscan on RHEL or CentOS

Tue Mar 28 22:19:31 UTC 2017

Hi all,

(I work on the Hyperscan project at Intel)

Hyperscan's dependency on Boost is a "header-only" dependency - that is, we don't use any of the small number of Boost libraries that require it to be compiled. You should just be able to copy or symlink the Boost headers into <hyperscan-source>/include/boost without having to go through its build process.

You can find some information in the "Very Quick Start" section of our documentation here:

    http://01org.github.io/hyperscan/dev-reference/getting_started.html#boost-headers

Hope that helps!

Regards,
    Justin

From: Oisf-users [mailto:oisf-users-bounces at lists.openinfosecfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Cloherty, Sean E
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Subject: Re: [Oisf-users] Hyperscan on RHEL or CentOS

Further but not there yet.  Boost ended with this -

...failed updating 2 targets...
...skipped 6 targets...
...updated 1126 targets...

Scrolling back I did find these errors but I am not sure if they are relevant or not -

...failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/sync/build/gcc-4.8.5/release/link-static/threading-multi/tss_pthread.o...

 ...skipped <pbin.v2/libs/sync/build/gcc-4.8.5/release/threading-multi>libboost_sync.so.1.63.0 for lack of <pbin.v2/libs/sync/build/gcc-4.8.5/release/threading-multi>tss_pthread.o...

From: Spransy, Derek [mailto:dsprans at emory.edu]
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Subject: Re: Hyperscan on RHEL or CentOS

cmake -DBUILD_STATIC_AND_SHARED=1 -DBOOST_ROOT=/home/<user>/boost_1_60_0/ ../

- No problem. As I recall I had some trouble at this step as well, but ultimately figured it out.

Two follow up questions if I could -

1.  Does it matter what directory you are in when you invoke git for the Hyperscan package?

- No, just as long as you have the requisite permissions.

2.  Does/Should the boost directory be in a specific users' home directory (like the account that you use to run Suricata), or is it not consequential at all?

- This shouldn't make any difference either, as long as you have permissions. I run pretty much everything out of my home folder when doing this type of work.

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Subject: Re: Hyperscan on RHEL or CentOS

These are my notes from installing HS and pf_ring support on RHEL 7.

Install with Intel Hyperscan Enabled

Install pre-requisites

sudo yum install cmake gcc-c++ python-devel

Download ragel, unpack, ./configure, make, sudo make install

Download and compile boost headers

Download boost 1.60

tar xvzf boost_1_60_0.tar.gz

cd boost_1_60_0

./bootstrap.sh

./b2

Install Hyperscan

git clone https://github.com/01org/hyperscan
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GitHub - 01org/hyperscan: High-performance regular ...<https://github.com/01org/hyperscan>
github.com
README.md Hyperscan. Hyperscan is a high-performance multiple regex matching library. It follows the regular expression syntax of the commonly-used libpcre library ...

cd hyperscan

mkdir build

cd build

cmake -DBUILD_STATIC_AND_SHARED=1 -DBOOST_ROOT=/home/<user>/boost_1_60_0/ ../

make

sudo make install

Compile Suricate with HS and PF_RING support

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-pfring --with-libpfring-includes=/usr/local/include --with-libpfring-libraries=/usr/local/lib --with-libnspr-includes=/usr/include/nspr4/ --with-libnspr-libraries=/usr/include/nspr4/ --with-libcap_ng-libraries=/usr/local/lib --with-libhs-includes=/usr/local/include/hs/ --with-libhs-libraries=/usr/local/lib/

mpm-algo and spm-algo values in suricata.yaml must be set to 'auto' or 'hs'

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Subject: [Oisf-users] Hyperscan on RHEL or CentOS

Has anyone got instructions for installing Hyperscan on RHEL/CentOS?  I've tried a few times now and it seems like I get fairly close, but I've not been able to compile Suricata with Hyperscan.  I know that it is something I am completing incorrectly but have not been able to figure it out.   Are there files or configuration changes that I can check at the end of the install to see if it was completed correctly prior to compiling Suricata?

Thanks.

Sean Cloherty

InfoSec Engineer/Scientist, Lead

MITRE Corporation

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