Re: Rule Chaining

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

At 12:25 AM 2/25/2005, Madhur Nagar wrote:
> Hi
> I wanted to knw that does SNORT allow
> 1. Rule Chaining - one rule calling another

Not that I'm aware of.

> 2. Stateful Checking - Checking for a content in say
> 10 packets and only if the content of all the 10
> matches then take some action

No, but this can be approximated with the threshold keyword.

> 3. Remote Rule Updation


Eh? "rule updating"? Yes, snort rules can be updated, but that's done 
outside of snort. There's even a handy tool called oinkmaster to help 
automate it.


> I would also be grateful if someone could please tell
> me in which files is the source code for the rules
> related to the above topics

Sorry, I don't know off the top of my head.. do some grepping for threshold 
in the code.



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