Bug in Argus 2.0.3??, and possibly others (not reporting on some traffic)

Chris Newton newton at unb.ca
Thu Oct 18 10:09:09 EDT 2001


Thanks Carter,  glad the exercise helped in some way :)

Chris

>===== Original Message From <carter at qosient.com> =====
>Hey Chris,
>   Sorry that you had to go through the exercise.
>But in some ways its nice to know that argus was
>doing the right thing.
>
>   I unfortunately found a bug in response to your
>mail, and there is a problem with server side
>filtering of output argus records.  I have the fix
>and it will come out in argus-2.0.4.
>
>   If anyone is filtering when connected in real-time
>to an argus, and the filter involves anything other
>than the standard flow descriptors, then you will
>have a problem getting all the records.  I'll have
>the test version up on the server today.
>
>Carter
>
>Carter Bullard
>QoSient, LLC
>300 E. 56th Street, Suite 18K
>New York, New York  10022
>
>carter at qosient.com
>Phone +1 212 588-9133
>Fax   +1 212 588-9134
>http://qosient.com
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris Newton [mailto:newton at unb.ca]
>> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 9:24 AM
>> To: carter at qosient.com; argus; Peter Van Epp
>> Subject: RE: Bug in Argus 2.0.3??, and possibly others (not
>> reporting on some traffic)
>>
>>
>> Ok folks.  After some testing and goofing around, it appears
>> that the dumb
>> little nortel switch we have, isn't passing all the packets
>> it sees on the
>> ports we are mirroring to the monitor port.  We even tried
>> Sniffer, it
>> couldn't see those scans.  Sorry for the false alarm :(
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> >===== Original Message From <carter at qosient.com> =====
>> >Actually on different machines, but the same link would be
>> >ideal, but the same machine will definitely work.
>> >
>> >Carter
>> >
>> >Carter Bullard
>> >QoSient, LLC
>> >300 E. 56th Street, Suite 18K
>> >New York, New York  10022
>> >
>> >carter at qosient.com
>> >Phone +1 212 588-9133
>> >Fax   +1 212 588-9134
>> >http://qosient.com
>> >



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