[Zeek] First attempt to upgrade to 3: Multiple interfaces

Don Thomas don.thomas.cissp at gmail.com
Wed Mar 4 16:08:53 PST 2020


Please bring back the multiple interface option.   I have two Gigamon's
(each has a 10 G interface ) Feeding Zeek on our IDS.

Or else Zeek is a No Go for me as well.

Yes... I need the multiple interface option !

Thank you,
*Don Thomas, CISSP, CISA*



On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 11:30 AM Tim Wojtulewicz <tim at corelight.com> wrote:

> If you don’t really need the latest and greatest cutting edge changes to
> 3.1, version 3.0.x still supports multiple interfaces. That feature was
> removed in 3.1 due to the wide changes to the IO Loop architecture, and
> you’re honestly the first user I’ve heard from that has noticed it missing.
> It was removed to make that work easier to accomplish, but we can certainly
> investigate bringing it back if there’s enough of a use case for it.
>
> Tim
>
> > On Mar 3, 2020, at 12:03 PM, James Lay <jlay at slave-tothe-box.net> wrote:
> >
> > Welp...out of luck so far:
> >
> > /opt/zeek/bin/zeek -C -i eth0 -i eth1 --filter '<redacted>' local
> > "Site::local_nets += { 192.168.1.0/24 }"
> >
> > gets me:
> >
> > ERROR: Only a single interface option (-i) is allowed.
> >
> > I didn't have this issue with 2.  Any reason why only one interface is
> > allowed now?  Unless something radical has changed with the resources
> > that zeekctl uses I have no desire to use it.  I'm dead in the water
> > with Zeek as of now.  Thank you.
> >
> > James
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