Eclectic Security

Few days ago a Smooth-Sec user have reported a problem running suricata with a pre-SSE3 Xeon processor. The error was an “illegal instruction” caused by some CPU architecture issue. With the help of Victor Julien we managed to fix the bug adding the “–disable-gccmarch-native”  flag in the configure option. If you encounter this problem, please follow the the instructions reported below.

#cd /root/packages/suricata-1.1beta1/

#make clean

#./configure --disable-gccmarch-native
#make
#checkinstall

to install the new created suricata package run,

#dpkg -i suricata_1.1beta1-1_i386.deb

start suricata

#/etc/init.d/suricata start

Thanks everyone to support Suricata and Smooth-Sec.