Posted by Grommish on Jul 08, 2019; 7:23am
URL: https://itus.accessinnov.com/FIRMWARE-Itus-Networks-Shield-Firmware-Upgrade-WIP-tp1726p1799.html

Quick update.

I've gotten Suricata 4.1.4 to build!  OpenWrt doesn't support it, so I'm in fairly uncharted territory.  I'm having issues RUNNING it, but it seems to be a configuration issue rather than a compile issue.  

Aside from that, I'm also in the process of starting a business, so my time for building will be reduced as I get the systems built out for other things.  It is certainly still going forward.

I've recently put the case back on the Shield, and then started getting weird issues..  All of the sudden, DNS would go away.  Granted, I was maxing out my bandwidth for HOURS on end (I tracked 1TB down on one machine in about 24 hours - all of which ran through the Shield).

I don't know if it's a heat issue, a memory issue, or what..  With Snort running, I was cull'ing the logs every 30 minutes, but given the rate at which 1MB logs form, it might not have survived the 30 minute time span without filling up RAM, so I'm running it every 10 minutes now.

Or..  it could be a heat issue.  The top of the case (Where the word Shield is) is temp'ing out at 103*F, so you know it's hotter internally.  I never could find a 5vDC fan to hook to the stub on the PCB that would work, so it's just the copper heatsink.  If it continues, I'll pull the cover off again and see what happens..