Re: Issues running snort 3 in multi threaded mode.

Fatih USTA via Snort-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ids.snort.general
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Hi

Snort3 doesn't support multi thread with nfq mod.

I asked same question before.

https://github.com/snort3/snort3/issues/164#issuecomment-804597085


Fatih USTA

On 30.03.2022 09:03, Andrew Welham wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I'm trying to run snort 3 in multi threaded mode. As i only appear to 
> have a single thread with maxes out at 100% cpu utilisation, when 
> other cores in the servers are not utilised.
> I am running using NFQUEUE as i also have a firewall on the same router.
>
> I added -z 4 to the command i use.
>
> /usr/local/bin/snort -c /usr/local/etc/snort/snort.lua -s 65535 -k 
> none -l /var/log/snort -D -m 0x1b -Q -z 4
>
>
> Although snort launches i get the following errors, and snort while 
> working does not run in multithreaded mode.
>
> nfq DAQ configured to inline.
> initializing daemon mode
> child process is 39280
> Commencing packet processing
> # ++ [0] 0
> ++ [1] 0
> ++ [2] 0
> ++ [3] 0
> Error receiving message from the DAQ instance: nfq_daq_msg_receive: 
> Netlink message processing failed: -1 - Operation not permitted (1)
> -- [1] 0
> Error receiving message from the DAQ instance: nfq_daq_msg_receive: 
> Netlink message processing failed: -1 - Operation not permitted (1)
> Error receiving message from the DAQ instance: nfq_daq_msg_receive: 
> Netlink message processing failed: -1 - Operation not permitted (1)
> -- [3] 0
> -- [2] 0
>
>
> Is it possible to run snort 3 in multi threaded mode with NFQUEUE.
> Have i made some type of config error
>
>
> Many Thanks
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