Re: No alerts attacking with nmap

[Joel Esler <joel.esler () sourcefire com>]

Read the snort.conf and the Snort manual.  Both of these will help  
you tune Snort.  It's the best advice for a new starter.

J

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On Mar 28, 2007, at 4:19 AM, Josep Pujadas i Jubany wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I have trouble adjusting my snort.conf ...
>
> I attacked the snort sensor from another machine on my LAN, using  
> nmap, and
> any alert is showed.
>
> snort is working (I have some UDP and ICMP alerts) ...
>
> I'm running it on a FreeBSD 6.2 machine:
>
> # pkg_info | grep snort
> oinkmaster-2.0      Help you update your snort rules after each update
> snort-2.6.1.3       Lightweight network intrusion detection system
>
> Any idea for my problem ?
>
> Where can I find good examples for configuring/adjusting snort.conf ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Josep Pujadas
>
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