malformed regular expression

Vern Paxson vern at ee.lbl.gov
Wed May 2 01:31:00 PDT 2001


[I've put bro at lbl.gov back onto the cc line, since others may find
 this dialog helpful]

> I run it on FreeBSD4.2.
> The run-time error appears some times, but not allways...
> When I monitor an ethernet network, it may appear 10 times a day.
> but yesterday I tried it on a gigabit link... and the error appears a lot
> more.
> 
> It seems to occur with some packet arrival.
> 
> $ bro -i wx0 mt.bro

The next thing to do is use -w tracefile to record the traffic that Bro is
reading, and then see if you can reproduce the problem using -r tracefile.
If so, send the trace to me and I'll track it down, and fix the error message.

		Vern

> 
> Magnus
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Vern Paxson [SMTP:vern at ee.lbl.gov]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, May 02, 2001 10:16 AM
> > To:	Anderssen Magnus
> > Subject:	Re: malformed regular expression
> > 
> > > I'm using 0.6 and 0.7.48a...
> > 
> > Okay, now I need to know how you're invoking it, because if I try just
> > running "bro" (version 0.7a48) on your policy scripts, it runs okay for
> > me.
> > 
> > 		Vern



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