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Re: What am I missing?


From: Max Vision <vision () whitehats com>
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 18:03:07 -0700 (PDT)

On Sun, 6 May 2001, Ed Greshko wrote:
Here is my setup....
3 machines on the same subnet.
...
Snort configuration:
  var HOME_NET [10.220.17.0/24,!10.220.17.96/32]
  var EXTERNAL_NET !$HOME_NET


The machines are on the same subnet, yet you are defining EXTERNAL_NET as
"everything that is not in the internal subnet"... so any rule that
watches for external->internal will skip right over your traffic.

Try setting EXTERNAL_NET to "any" if you want to do local testing like
this...

Max


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