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Date:      Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:59:20 +0200
From:      Laurent Fabre <fabre@matranet.com>
To:        "Karl M. Joch" <k.joch@kmjeuro.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: LaBrea for BSD?
Message-ID:  <200109251455.QAA28275@malraux.matranet.com>
References:  <20010924162750.24311@shalmaneser.thelbane.com> <200109241645.SAA02368@malraux.matranet.com> <200109251018.MAA08113@malraux.matranet.com> <200109251339.PAA22725@malraux.matranet.com>

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Karl M. Joch wrote:
> there is one strange thing. it runs here now partially. but the 
> following points are strange:
> 
> a) the non used ip doesnt ping back as mentioned in the doc (ether 
> without -a or with -a)
> 
> b) it works mostly in the night here when traffic is low. as soon as 
> traffic in the net increases it stops working. means, it still runs, but 
> doesnt log any activity/teergrubing into the log (running -lv). it still 
> logs bandwidth used with 0. and there would be activities (seen in logs 
> of other servers) which would fall under labreas responsibility.
> 
> compiling and linking (also static) works fine. no errors here and while 
> running. i have it on an own box  (P66/64MB/1.5GB SCSI) with labrea only 
> on 4.4-stable.
> 
> the code is far to deep in the ethernet stuff for my c knowledge. i 
> looked at it, but .....
> 
> 
> Karl
> 
> Laurent Fabre wrote:
> 
>> Chris Faulhaber wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:27:50AM -0500, Timothy Knox wrote:
>>>
>>>> Has anyone here looked at LaBrea <http://hts.dshield.org/LaBrea/>? 
>>>> If so,
>>>> how much effort would be needed to port it to FreeBSD? It seems like an
>>>> interesting idea, and a potentially amusing way to slow the spread of
>>>> these darn IIS worms.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Actually I have an [untested] port at:
>>>
>>> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jedgar/labrea.shar
>>>
>>> It builds and installs but I haven't had the time to test
>>> its functionality.
>>>
>> As far as i know it uses only libnet and libpcap, which are both 
>> ported librairy,
>> so if it works under Linux i can't figure a reason why it should'nt 
>> under BSD
>> (other than a lib installation misbehavior).
>>
>>
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Actually it's a libpcap issue i think.
As soon as the traffic gets high you start loosing frame
and the processing takes huge time to complete.

So there's a performance issue only in the capture phase
and not on the reply react phase.


Problem is i don't see anything else than libpcap to capture packets....

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