[ARGUS] github version of argus 3.x not working on FreeBSD tun interfaces

mike tancsa mike at sentex.ca
Mon Dec 18 15:07:45 EST 2023


Hi Carter et al,

     I was trying the new version of argus 3.x from github and ran into 
a problem with FreeBSD12 and 13. For some reason, it no longer is able 
to bind to a tun interface, only ethernet interfaces.

Using a simple test config

ARGUS_FLOW_TYPE="Bidirectional"
ARGUS_FLOW_KEY="CLASSIC_5_TUPLE"
ARGUS_MONITOR_ID=127.0.0.1
ARGUS_INTERFACE=tun97
ARGUS_OUTPUT_FILE=/var/log/argus/argus-test.out
ARGUS_DEBUG_LEVEL=9

fails on FreeBSD 12 and 13.

running it through truss, the last bits are below. Not sure if that 
helps or not. Any idea what might be up ?

     ---Mike


R1|SIGUSR2 },{ }) = 0 (0x0)
sigaction(SIGTERM,{ 0x800317020 SA_RESTART|SA_SIGINFO ss_t },{ SIG_DFL 
SA_RESTART ss_t }) = 0 (0x0)
sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK,{ },0x0)                 = 0 (0x0)
sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK,{ 
SIGHUP|SIGINT|SIGQUIT|SIGILL|SIGTRAP|SIGABRT|SIGEMT|SIGFPE|SIGKILL|SIGBUS|SIGSEGV|SIGSYS|SIGPIPE|SIGALRM|SIGTERM|SIGURG|SIGSTOP|SIGTSTP|SIGCONT|SIGCHLD|SIGTTIN|SIGTTOU|SIGIO|SIGXCPU|SIGXFSZ|SIGVTALRM|SIGPROF|SIGWINCH|SIGINFO|SIGUS
R1|SIGUSR2 },{ }) = 0 (0x0)
sigaction(SIGUSR1,{ 0x800317020 SA_RESTART|SA_SIGINFO ss_t },{ SIG_DFL 
0x0 ss_t }) = 0 (0x0)
sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK,{ },0x0)                 = 0 (0x0)
sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK,{ 
SIGHUP|SIGINT|SIGQUIT|SIGILL|SIGTRAP|SIGABRT|SIGEMT|SIGFPE|SIGKILL|SIGBUS|SIGSEGV|SIGSYS|SIGPIPE|SIGALRM|SIGTERM|SIGURG|SIGSTOP|SIGTSTP|SIGCONT|SIGCHLD|SIGTTIN|SIGTTOU|SIGIO|SIGXCPU|SIGXFSZ|SIGVTALRM|SIGPROF|SIGWINCH|SIGINFO|SIGUSR1|SIGUSR2 
},{ }) = 0 (0x0)
sigaction(SIGUSR2,{ 0x800317020 SA_RESTART|SA_SIGINFO ss_t },{ SIG_DFL 
0x0 ss_t }) = 0 (0x0)
sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK,{ },0x0)                 = 0 (0x0)
getpid()                                         = 25636 (0x6424)
access("/etc/localtime",R_OK)                    = 0 (0x0)
open("/etc/localtime",O_RDONLY,012342134)        = 4 (0x4)
fstat(4,{ mode=-r--r--r-- ,inode=229825,size=3477,blksize=4096 }) = 0 (0x0)
read(4,"TZif2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,41448) = 3477 (0xd95)
close(4)                                         = 0 (0x0)
issetugid()                                      = 0 (0x0)
open("/usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules",O_RDONLY,00) = 4 (0x4)
fstat(4,{ mode=-r--r--r-- ,inode=229824,size=3535,blksize=4096 }) = 0 (0x0)
mmap(0x0,53248,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON,-1,0x0) = 
34381910016 (0x801525000)
read(4,"TZif2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,41448) = 3535 (0xdcf)
close(4)                                         = 0 (0x0)
     ArgusAlert: argus[25636.00307c0008000000]: 18 Dec 23 
15:01:09.591885 started
write(2,"    ArgusAlert: argus[25636.0030"...,81) = 81 (0x51)
mmap(0x0,5246976,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON,-1,0x0) = 
34381963264 (0x801532000)
openat(AT_FDCWD,"/dev/bpf",O_RDWR,00)            = 4 (0x4)
ioctl(4,BIOCVERSION,0x7fffffffdc18)              = 0 (0x0)
__sysctl("kern.ostype",2,0x7fffffffdc20,0x7fffffffdb80,0x0,0) = 0 (0x0)
__sysctl("kern.hostname",2,0x7fffffffdd20,0x7fffffffdb80,0x0,0) = 0 (0x0)
__sysctl("kern.osrelease",2,0x7fffffffde20,0x7fffffffdb80,0x0,0) = 0 (0x0)
__sysctl("kern.version",2,0x7fffffffdf20,0x7fffffffdb80,0x0,0) = 0 (0x0)
__sysctl("hw.machine",2,0x7fffffffe020,0x7fffffffdb80,0x0,0) = 0 (0x0)
ioctl(4,BIOCGBLEN,0x7fffffffdbfc)                = 0 (0x0)
ioctl(4,BIOCSBLEN,0x7fffffffdbfc)                = 0 (0x0)
ioctl(4,BIOCSETIF,0x7fffffffe120)                = 0 (0x0)
ioctl(4,BIOCGDLT,0x7fffffffdbfc)                 = 0 (0x0)
ioctl(4,BIOCGDLTLIST,0x7fffffffdc08)             = 0 (0x0)
ioctl(4,BIOCGDLTLIST,0x7fffffffdc08)             = 0 (0x0)
ioctl(4,BIOCSHDRCMPLT,0x7fffffffdc00)            = 0 (0x0)
ioctl(4,BIOCSRTIMEOUT,0x7fffffffdbe0)            = 0 (0x0)
ioctl(4,BIOCPROMISC,0x0)                         = 0 (0x0)
ioctl(4,BIOCSTSTAMP,0x7fffffffdbfc)              = 0 (0x0)
ioctl(4,BIOCGBLEN,0x7fffffffdbfc)                = 0 (0x0)
mmap(0x0,528384,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON,-1,0x0) = 
34387210240 (0x801a33000)
ioctl(4,BIOCSETF,0x7fffffffdbe0)                 = 0 (0x0)
fcntl(4,F_GETFL,)                                = 2 (0x2)
fcntl(4,F_SETFL,O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK)               = 0 (0x0)
socket(PF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM,0)                     = 5 (0x5)
ioctl(5,SIOCGIFADDR,0x7fffffffe150)              = 0 (0x0)
ioctl(5,SIOCGIFNETMASK,0x7fffffffe150)           = 0 (0x0)
close(5)                                         = 0 (0x0)
close(4)                                         = 0 (0x0)
_umtx_op(0x801501008,UMTX_OP_WAIT_UINT_PRIVATE,0x0,0x18,0x7fffdfffde18) 
ERR#60 'Operation timed out'
_umtx_op(0x801501008,UMTX_OP_WAIT_UINT_PRIVATE,0x0,0x18,0x7fffdfffde18) 
ERR#60 'Operation timed out'
_umtx_op(0x801501008,UMTX_OP_WAIT_UINT_PRIVATE,0x0,0x18,0x7fffdfffde18) 
ERR#60 'Operation timed out'
_umtx_op(0x801501008,UMTX_OP_WAIT_UINT_PRIVATE,0x0,0x18,0x7fffdfffde18) 
ERR#60 'Operation timed out'
_umtx_op(0x801501008,UMTX_OP_WAIT_UINT_PRIVATE,0x0,0x18,0x7fffdfffde18) 
ERR#60 'Operation timed out'
_umtx_op(0x801501008,UMTX_OP_WAIT_UINT_PRIVATE,0x0,0x18,0x7fffdfffde18) 
ERR#60 'Operation timed out'
_umtx_op(0x801501008,UMTX_OP_WAIT_UINT_PRIVATE,0x0,0x18,0x7fffdfffde18) 
ERR#60 'Operation timed out'
_umtx_op(0x801501008,UMTX_OP_WAIT_UINT_PRIVATE,0x0,0x18,0x7fffdfffde18) 
ERR#60 'Operation timed out'
_umtx_op(0x801501008,UMTX_OP_WAIT_UINT_PRIVATE,0x0,0x18,0x7fffdfffde18) 
ERR#60 'Operation timed out'
_umtx_op(0x80032fc10,UMTX_OP_WAIT_UINT_PRIVATE,0x0,0x18,0x7fffffffe3d8) 
ERR#60 'Operation timed out'
_umtx_op(0x801501008,UMTX_OP_WAIT_UINT_PRIVATE,0x0,0x18,0x7fffdfffde18) 
ERR#60 'Operation timed out'



On 11/21/2023 4:43 PM, Carter Bullard wrote:
> Gentle persons,
> I’m preparing to transition a significant part of the commercial 
> version of argus into the open source project.  I’m going to move the 
> commercial sensor into the open source, and a few of the commercial 
> client programs, including complete passive DNS, a lot of large scale 
> deployment collection and processing, and the argus python client 
> library to enable AI/ML work.  I’m hoping that this will be a big 
> addition to the open source argus collection, and hopefully useful for 
> the community.
>
> This version is a significant upgrade, designed primarily to provide a 
> zero configuration approach for comprehensive network auditing in 
> endpoints, ie laptops, workstations and mobile devices.  The core of 
> the zero configuration approach is support for a UUID argus source 
> identifier, so you don’t have to assign a source id in your 
> argus.conf, and support for monitoring all the physical and virtual 
> interfaces on the system independently.  This has caused us to modify 
> the argus record header to support the much larger scrid and to add an 
> interface identifier.  Bigger identifiers mean a bigger header, and 
> thus the reason for the major version change of the software.
>
> There are a lot of new features and fixes that come from the 
> commercial argus.  This version should be able to run at 100Gbps with 
> hardware support, as it does at Stanford.  It is also very efficient, 
> so that the cpu and memory utilization is very small on end systems 
> that use a lot of real and dynamic virtual interfaces.  And of course 
> we’ve rung out a lot of bugs that are in the argus-3.0 distros.
>
> I had thought to distribute this release as argus-4.0, but there is a 
> lot of commercial argus data out there at various sites, so I think 
> the best path is to release it as argus-5.0, which is the designation 
> for commercial argus.
>
> While argus-5.0 data is incompatible with argus-3.0 processing, all 
> argus-5.0 components currently read and write argus-3.0 formats, so 
> there is a lot of backward compatibility, and hopefully an easy 
> transition path for upgrading.
>
> I've setup the current 3.0.8 argus repositories at 
> https://github.com/openargus and I have the core of argus-5.0 already 
> setup in private repos on GitHub.  I will make the private repos 
> available before the end of the year as a distinct set of 
> distributions.  The commercial code is called ‘gargoyle’ and I’ll keep 
> that name until we make it just argus-5.0.
>
> I am very interested in comments / suggestions / opinions and even 
> flames … so send email or go to the GitHub sites and make some noise 
> there.
>
> Hope all is most excellent,
>
> Carter
>
> Carter Bullard • QoSient • Founder/CEO
> 330 Mountain Rest Road, POBox 1201, New Paltz, New York 12561
> Phone +1.212.588.9133 • Mobile +1.917.497.9494
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