Re: a lot of Loopback traffic being logged.

[Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc com>]

At 09:38 AM 4/22/2004, Chuck Holley wrote:
> "BAD-TRAFFIC loopback traffic"  I am getting a lot of this one alert on 
> 127.0.0.1.  im really not sure what is causing this.  If it is faulty 
> networking or maybe a spoofer.  Now that I know im getting this, thanks to 
> SNORT, what the heck do I do about it?  Anyone ever remedy this problem?

What interface parameter are you passing to snort on the command line? -i 
any? Try forcing snort to only listen on one real ethernet interface, it 
could be sniffing your loopback interface, which naturally would have 
loopback traffic on it.





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