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Re: [Snort-users] tcpdump file analysis

From: Joel Esler <jesler_at_nospam>
Date: Sun May 03 2009 - 08:32:45 GMT
To: Oguz Yarimtepe <comp.ogz@gmail.com>

Oguz Yarimtepe said:
> Hi,
>
> I want to analyze a prerecorded tcpdump file via snort. I checked that
> snort can read pcap files with -r parameter. I want to know whether i
> can send the generated results to mysql database and see the results
> from base interface.

Yes, If you run Snort as you would any other time in IPS mode "-c", and simply use the output plugins you have defined in your snort.conf, when you run Snort with the -r option, it will log the alerts generated from your pcap normally.

J

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