# \[Re:  remote.bro\]

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/re-remote-bro/1030>\
**Category:** Zeek\
**Created:** [October 9, 2006, 6:45am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/re-remote-bro/1030 "2006-10-09T06:45:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Christian\_Kreibich3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Christian\_Kreibich3](https://community.zeek.org/u/Christian_Kreibich3)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 6:45am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/re-remote-bro/1030/1 "2006-10-09T06:45:56Z")

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FYI, an update from Sandro.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Kreibich3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Christian\_Kreibich3](https://community.zeek.org/u/Christian_Kreibich3)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 6:54am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/re-remote-bro/1030/2 "2006-10-09T06:54:57Z")

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Hi again Sandro,

thanks for the feedback.

> I made a diff and both 1.1 config.h were identical.  
> Maybe, the problems are caused by VMware? As soon as our wireless-patch  
> for 1.1 is finished, I'll install 1.1 on machine B without using VMware  
> and tell u whether communication works better or not 😉

So one thing I can think of that you could try is running broping,  
Broccoli's communication test tool:  
[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~cpk25/broccoli/manual/c85.html#AEN701](http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~cpk25/broccoli/manual/c85.html#AEN701)

Basically you configure a Bro node to run a broping policy and then this  
node will return "pong" events for every "ping" event the ping client  
sends to the node. If the Bro node uses the select loop, this should  
definitely work without any live traffic at all. It also takes one Bro  
out of the equation, hopefully making it easier to pinpoint the Bro node  
causing the problem.

Cheers,  
Christian.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/re-remote-bro/1030/3 "2022-05-06T15:37:59Z")

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