TotBytes field width

Carter Bullard carter at qosient.com
Wed May 11 19:11:28 EDT 2011


Hey Keir,
Yes, that is the intended behavior, but it should have a '*' when the field is truncated.  At least that is the design. I'll look to see what is up. If a fix is needed it will go into argus-clients-3.0.5.10.  We keep the soon to be released clients in:
   http://qosient.com/argus/dev

They are quasi-stable.

Carter



On May 11, 2011, at 2:02 PM, Keir Novik <novik at sfu.ca> wrote:

> Using Argus 3.0.4, I'm seeing the value in the TotBytes field truncated unless I explicitly specify the field width:
> 
> % ra -r file -s saddr bytes
>           SrcAddr   TotBytes 
>         100.0.1.1 3724219621
>           1.0.2.1    6965914
>         1.0.3.255      26475
>         197.0.1.1      16694
>           1.0.4.1       8448
>           1.0.5.1       4976
>           1.0.6.1        124
> % ra -r file -s saddr bytes:12
>           SrcAddr     TotBytes 
>         100.0.1.1  37242196212
>           1.0.2.1      6965914
>         1.0.3.255        26475
>         197.0.1.1        16694
>           1.0.4.1         8448
>           1.0.5.1         4976
>           1.0.6.1          124
> 
> Is this working as designed?
> 
> Regards,
> Keir
> 
> --
> Dr. Keir Novik / Network Security Analyst, Simon Fraser University
> 
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