Re: Snort only produces Steam5 alerts

[James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net>]

On Sep 27, 2013, at 7:50 PM, Joe Seanor <joseph.seanor () gmail com> wrote:

> James,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Home_Net is: 192.168.0.12 (I am only protecting a single box with this)
> External_Net is:  !$HOME_NET
>
> Ruleset, I ran pulledpork with my oinkcode and I did nothing to modify any of the rules in the snort.rules file.  I 
> checked the file and found rules that were active and rules that were commented out.
>
> I wonder if it is part of my install, since another time I had something similar, I wiped the box, reinstalled and it 
> worked that time.  I went and did my new install plan, which had Qmailrocks installed first, then Snort, and all the 
> other items.  And I am finding the issues with Snort only alerting on the one alert.
>
> Joe
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 7:54 PM, James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net> wrote:
>
> On Sep 27, 2013, at 2:24 PM, Joe Seanor <joseph.seanor () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > I have a new install of snort:
> >
> >    ,,_     -*> Snort! <*-
> >   o"  )~   Version 2.9.3.1 IPv6 GRE (Build 40)
> >    ''''    By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team: http://www.snort.org/snort/snort-team
> >            Copyright (C) 1998-2012 Sourcefire, Inc., et al.
> >            Using libpcap version 1.4.0
> >            Using PCRE version: 8.30 2012-02-04
> >            Using ZLIB version: 1.2.7
> >
> >
> > And it has run for a full 24 hours, and the only alert (50 of them) that I have is stream5: Reset outside window.  I 
> > even ran an external Nmap scan, and I received a "Portscan alert" and then everything else showed up as a stream5 
> > alert.
> >
> > What did I miss in my configuration?
> >
> > Joe
>
> What rulesets have you enabled and what's your home_net and external_net look like?
>
> James

How big is that snort.rules file?  Mine is about 16 megs.

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