RE: No Alerts Being Generated

["Kaplan, Andrew H." <AHKAPLAN () PARTNERS ORG>]

I ran Snort in packet sniffer mode and indeed it is seeing traffic. To answer
your other question 
about the interface, I am specifying the interface in the command line.

-----Original Message-----
From: sekure [mailto:sekure () gmail com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 12:34 PM
To: Kaplan, Andrew H.
Cc: Martin Roesch; Snort User Group (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] No Alerts Being Generated


Andrew,

Let's go back to the basics...  Try running snort in packet sniffer
mode, dumping the traffic to console: "snort -devi <int>".  Obviously
substitute your interface name for <int>.  You should quickly see if
Snort is seeing ANY traffic at all.... Speaking of which, are you
specifying an interface on the command line when you try to run snort
in nids mode???  That could be your problem.


On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:39:04 -0400, Kaplan, Andrew H.
<ahkaplan () partners org> wrote:
> Hi there --
>
> I created the test rule you had specified and then restarted Snort. I then
> ran a series of scans, including the fingerprint scan, using nmapFE on a
remote
> machine.
> None of the scans resulted in alerts being shown. There is no question that
> something
> is configured wrong, unfortunately I don't know what it is. I am including the
> snort.conf
> file with this e-mail. Someone mentioned channging the EXTERNAL_NET option
from
> any to !HOME_NET.
> I tried that approach without any difference and thereafter changed it back.
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Roesch [mailto:roesch () sourcefire com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 10:01 AM
> To: Kaplan, Andrew H.
> Cc: Snort User Group (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] No Alerts Being Generated
>
> Have you tried making a test rule?  How about:
>
> alert tcp any any -> any any (msg: "TCP packet";)
>
> put that in a file called test.rule then run
>
> snort -c test.rule -A console -N
>
> for a couple minutes and surf around the web, you should have alerts.
> If you don't have alerts then something is probably configured wrong,
> if you do have alerts then your test case (running Newt in front of
> Snort) probably isn't generating anything that Snort is looking for.
> Try running some real attacks or an nmap fingerprint scan.
>
>      -Marty
>
> On Oct 6, 2004, at 8:00 AM, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
>
> > Hi there -- (sorry if this a repeat of a message sent out)
> >
> > I made the change within the snort.conf file you had suggested. I also
> > ran the
> > snort -T command
> > and it ran through the configuration without reporting back any
> > errors. Finally,
> > I installed NeWT,
> > the Windows version of Nessus, on another machine and ran several
> > different
> > tests on the snort box.
> > The tests I ran were portscans and the "SANS Top 20" list. After the
> > scans were
> > finished, I checked
> > the alert file as well as the ACID GUI. Neither one mentioned any alert
> > conditions taking place.
> >
> > As a further test, I changed the !HOME_NET setting back to any to see
> > if that
> > made any difference.
> > It did not. What should I look for next?
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nigel Houghton [mailto:nigel () sourcefire com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 4:57 PM
> > To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> > Cc: Kaplan, Andrew H.
> > Subject: Re: [Snort-users] No Alerts Being Generated
> >
> >
> > Well the first thing I see in your file is the EXTERNAL_NET variable
> > is set
> > to any. You might want to set that to !$HOME_NET for a start.
> >
> > Second, you can run snort -T -c /etc/snort/snort.conf to test your
> > snort
> > configuration.
> >
> > Next thing is to make sure your snort box is listening on a span port
> > of a
> > switch or a tap or a hub (probably not using one in your case I think)
> > and
> > that the span port/tap is configured correctly.
> >
> > Then, if possible, you could try generating some traffic that Snort
> > should
> > alert on, like maybe a web request for ftp.pl which should set off sid
> > 1107. You could run some nessus tests or just do it manually with a
> > straightforward http://www.yourwebhost.org/ftp.pl or pick some other
> > simple
> > rule to test.
> >
> > On  0, snort-users-request () lists sourceforge net allegedly wrote:
> > >    3. No Alerts Being Generated (Kaplan, Andrew H.)
> > >
> > > --__--__--
> > >
> > > Message: 3
> > > From: "Kaplan, Andrew H." <AHKAPLAN () PARTNERS ORG>
> > > To: "Snort User Group (E-mail)" <snort-users () lists sourceforge net>
> > > Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:35:26 -0400
> > > Subject: [Snort-users] No Alerts Being Generated
> > >
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> > >
> > > I completed installing snort 2.2.0 (build 30) and have begun running
> > > it. The
> > > ACID GUI and /var/log/snort/alert files have not shown any alerts
> > > even though the program has been running for over an hour. To verify
> > > there
> > were
> > > no syntax errors in the snort.conf file, I ran the following:
> > >
> > > snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf
> > >
> > > There were no errors and warnings, and the program appears to be
> > > running
> > > properly. Where in snort.conf and elsewhere, should I check for
> > > configuration mistakes? I have included the snort.conf file here.
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >  <<snort.conf.29sept04.txt>>
> >
> >
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