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Re: flowbits: netsenum
From: waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 17:24:32 -0400
On 5/30/2013 16:28, Joel Esler wrote:
On May 30, 2013, at 4:05 PM, waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net <mailto:wkitty42 () windstream net>> wrote:what i ran into and the reason for my original posts, was that the bits were set but there was nothing to check them... no indication of a SO only rule or just a forgotten or commented out standard alert rule... that's why i ran my grep to find out if there was a rule disabled by default for those flowbits setters... if there was and it was disabled by default, then it might either need to be enabled by default or the flowbits setter rule should also be disabled by default…And it is much appreciated it. I love the feedback, I'm trying to make the "out of the box" policy as good as I can get it, if you adjust from there, that's on you.
agreed! glad you appreciate the feedback... it helps to keep "us" from drinking too much during "game time" ;) ;) O:)
as far as SO rules go, i don't know about other environments but ours does not use them by default... it requires specific and manual intervention to enable them as well as making them work (generating the stubs in the proper place and updating them when they change)... the fact that our environment it its own distribution and not one of the big name brand one adds complication to the process since they are distributed only in compiled form…Well, from our perspective, we ship them in a "default" state. If people choose not to use the SOs, or can't, then that's a use case we can't work around.
the main problem, as noted above, is that it is not easy to tell which OS version compilation will work in our environment... at one time we were able to use Centos-4.6 but that changed in later releases... then the Centos stuff didn't work at all for a bit and folks were forced to disable the SO rules because of snort crashing... i'm not sure which compilation might work these days so it is not something supported out of our box... that's why i stated "specific and manual intervention" ;) when the drummer's drumbeat keeps changing beat count randomly and at random points in time, it is best to find a sane and consistent drummer to march to instead of keeping on stumbling and fumbling around... we've done that by avoiding the SO rules in our official packages and support O:) -- NOTE: No off-list assistance is given without prior approval. Please keep mailing list traffic on the list unless private contact is specifically requested and granted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ Snort-sigs mailing list Snort-sigs () lists sourceforge net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-sigs http://www.snort.org Please visit http://blog.snort.org for the latest news about Snort!
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