Re: New to writing Snort Rules. Help writing a rule?

[evejou <girl () techn0ev3 net>]

Hi Tyler,

I think what you're looking for is how to whitelist IPs:
http://manual.snort.org/node17.html#SECTION003219000000000000000

According to this entry here, you really don't want to use signatures to
white/blacklist stuff:
http://vrt-blog.snort.org/2012/04/snort-performance-and-ip-only-rules.html


-evejou






On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Tyler MacPherson <tah338 () sr unh edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently put Snort on a system for my work. I'm trying to configure it
> by writing certain rules, but since I'm brand new to Snort, I'm having
> some trouble figuring out how to write these rules. Basically, the
> system I'm deploying Snort on should only be receiving traffic through
> two avenues: a MySQL database and Oracle database that are linked to it.
> Everything else should be picked up Snort as potentially being bad. What
> I'm wondering is, how would I go about writing rules that would achieve
> this goal?
>
> Thank you.
>
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