Re: Cannot suppress events from a security scanner

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

Are you just trying to ignore traffic to/from this host totally?

Why don't you use a bpf filter at Snort's command line, or even write pass rules?

joel


On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:54:56PM +0200, it looks like trashboy () free fr sent me:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to exclude from snort processing rules a security scanner. To do
> so, I've completed as follow the threshold.conf file:
>
> suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 1-9999, track by_src, ip 192.168.1.250
> suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 1-9999, track by_dst, ip 192.168.1.250
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't works. Snort goes on processing traffic from this IP
> address. I've done another test specifying just one sig_id and in this case it
> works. Anyone can help me solve this issue ?
>
> Thanks,
>
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