Run snort: # snort -dev host 192.168.0.3 and 192.168.0.1 Ping 192.168.0.1 from 192.168.0.3 within one data in payload: # ping -c 1 -s 1 192.168.0.1 Snort's output showed below: -*> Snort! <*- Version 1.8.3 (Build 88) By Martin Roesch (roesch@sourcefire.com, www.snort.org) 01/10-11:34:43.898282 0:80:AD:78:83:BB -> 0:E0:18:C4:52:76 type:0x800 len:0x2B 192.168.0.3 -> 192.168.0.1 ICMP TTL:64 TOS:0x0 ID:0 IpLen:20 DgmLen:29 DF Type:8 Code:0 ID:9435 Seq:0 ECHO Segmentation fault (core dumped) hmm... core dumped! while with the '-X' option works well. :) Have you ever seen this happened? Regards, Sinbad