[Bro] Bro auto start at boot with Endace cards

Donaldson, John donaldson8 at llnl.gov
Tue Jul 28 13:32:56 PDT 2015


Brad,

That’s possible, given the amount of time that dagsetup can take to set up the cards. We have Bro start with a normal init script (not in rc.local), but have never had this happen to us, on our 9.2X2 cards.

v/r

John Donaldson

From: bro-bounces at bro.org [mailto:bro-bounces at bro.org] On Behalf Of MILLER, BRAD L
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 2:20 PM
To: bro at bro.org
Subject: [Bro] Bro auto start at boot with Endace cards

My recent Bro config is coming along nicely, but I have run into one issue.

I followed the normal method to start Bro at system boot (added /usr/local/bro/bin/broctl start to /etc/rc.local), but this has resulted in bro crashing due to device dag0:0 being “busy”.  I find that two normal Bro processes are already started using this method, but broctl status indicates crashed.  Attempts to start Bro fail until I kill the existing Bro PIDs.  Once I do that, I can start Bro normally via broctl.

Is this an issue unique to Endace cards?  A race condition with Dag load?  Any ideas?




Brad Miller | Comerica Bank
Information Security Architecture
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