[SNORT] Best rule categories to enable/disable

[bcg at struxural.com (Ben Greenfield)]

It certainly sounds like you are running snort inline.  I recommend
tuning the snort.conf file to be a very accurate representation of the
network snort is seeing traffic for.  Are you running snort on your
internal network or on your WAN connection?  It sounds like you are
running snort on your WAN connection.  I would only run rule
categories that relate to services you are actually running - if you
don't have any HTTP servers accepting connections where Snort can see
them, you don't need to run the HTTP rules, etc.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Will Metcalf <william.metcalf at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you are running in passive mode this should not happen. ?If you are
> running inline then you should run with alert only rules until you can
> weed out false positives and then convert to drop rules one rule file
> at a time, or for certian types of events that you know you should
> never see in your environment.
>
> Regards,
>
> Will
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Thomas Fischer <tvfischer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So outside of enabling everything, which I can't seem to do as it is
> > seriously?impairing?my network access by slow load times, pictures not
> > showing up, IM disconnections, gaming issues.
> > Which package rules would you enable or disable to have a safe but optimized
> > snort-ids probe?
> > Cheers
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