Re: [Snort-users] OT: VLANs and ngrep?

This is a discussion on Re: [Snort-users] OT: VLANs and ngrep? within the Snort forums, part of the System Security and Security Related category; Paul Melson wrote: > It appears to work for me on Fedora 7: > > # ngrep vlan 1 > interface: ...


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Old 09-04-2007
Jason Haar
 
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Default Re: [Snort-users] OT: VLANs and ngrep?

Paul Melson wrote:
> It appears to work for me on Fedora 7:
>
> # ngrep vlan 1
> interface: eth0 (10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0)
> filter: (ip or ip6) and ( vlan 1 )
> exit
> 0 received, 0 dropped
>
>

Try that with tcpdump and you'll see the problem (looks like ngrep
doesn't have the same error checking tcpdump does). It plain cannot work
if it starts with that "(ip)" or "(ip or ip6)" at the beginning.

I have logged a bug in ngrep.sf.net so hopefully it will be fixed at
some stage.

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