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Re: "preprocessor portscan2-ignorehosts" ignored


From: Jens Krabbenhoeft <tschenz-snort-users () noris net>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:46:30 +0100

Helmut,

you might consider putting a BPF on snort to ignore your proxy or
something like that.
BPF?! Blocking ...?

berkeley packet filter

from snort (2.0) --help:

USAGE: /usr/local/snort-2.0-HEAD/bin/snort [-options] <filter options>
                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
<Filter Options> are standard BPF options, as seen in TCPDump

So just have a look at the tcpdump manpage. It would basically be
something like "snort -o -i ... ... ... not host your.proxy.name.or.ip".

Note that ignoring complete hosts by using BPF makes any packets
coming/going (in the case of 'not host') invisible to the whole
snort-process. You might want to tweak the BPF a bit, perhaps like 'not
host ... and not src port ...'... 

HTH,
        Jens


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