argus.2.0.6.fixes.1 on OBSD 3.7

Peter Van Epp vanepp at sfu.ca
Fri Aug 26 10:54:17 EDT 2005


	Because thats the name of the argus binary on the BSDs (it is 
argus_linux on linux).

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:44:28AM -0500, eric wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 10:30:37 -0400, Carter Bullard proclaimed...
> 
> >    I've got the modified argus_bpf running, and we'll see if it now  
> > breaks.
> > I've got a lot of memory debug support now in, and so we'll see if we've
> > got someone deallocating incorrectly, or if we just have a lot of memory
> > requirements for this probe.  You have a lot of scanning going on, and
> > so you have a high average flow arrival rate (>20,000 simultaneous  
> > flows),
> > but that shouldn't cause you to go over 500MB of memory.
> 
> Why is it that some folks call it argus_bpf? I've only been seeing this for
> abour 4 years now so I thougth I'd ask now :)



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