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Re: Frag3 timeout ignored


From: Emeka Agu <mainmen1985 () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 08:20:54 +0100

So sorry, it was early in the morning and I wasn't fully functioning!

Anyway

In snort I set the timeout for fragments as 30seconds. I know Windows has a
60 second fragment timeout. Using scapy I fragment a packet into two
(Wireshark sees the seperation as an IP fragment).

I send the first fragment straight away, wait 45 seconds then send the
next, thinking the original fragment will be dropped from Snort's buffer
but kept by the OS buffer, but Snort STILL notices it reassembles the file
and alerts me to the content.

As for version, it us the default one on Backtrack 5R2, how can I tell the
version? My Frag3 line is:

preprocessor frag3_engine: policy first detect_anomalies timeout 30


I notice that I can set the Stream5 timeout to a value too, so maybe I
will set that to 30 seconds and see


On 2 September 2012 06:19, waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net> wrote:

On 9/1/2012 22:36, Gmail Personal wrote:
Hi guys, my Frag3 timeout of 30 seconds is ignored when I'm doing some
testing
with Scapy

Is it as simple as putting "timeout 30" in the Frag engine options?

you need to explain a bit more details... what do you mean that the
timeout is
not working?

are you expecting that snort will timeout on the stream after 30 seconds
or what??

what version of snort are you running?

what, exactly, does your stream3 config line look like??

FWIW: all of our crystal balls are in the repair shop due to failures in
reading
what others are trying to depict with their reports... we only have what
you/they can accurately explain to us to work with... "it isn't working"
is like
saying the "car won't start" and no one can tell if the battery is dead or
the
gas is watered down...

so help us to help you... give us as much detail as you can that is
specific to
the problem you are having ;)


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