SNORT -Unknown command line checksum option: ascii

Question

snort -vde -l /var/log/snort -k ascii

when i tried this command it gives me the error

Unknown command line checksum option: ascii.

I don't know why,coz i hve installed snort successfully, and also i did apt-get install ascii,yet no solution. it still exists.

any idea?

Answer 1

You probably meant to use the -K flag instead of -k:

• -k checksum-mode valid values: all, noip, notcp, noudp, noicmp, and none
• -K logging-mode valid values: pcap, ascii, and none

For more details see man snort.