Re: disabling specific snort rules

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

Roland,

Yea I haven’t seen anything out there that’s current.  In the Snort source there’s a directory called docs…read every 
README.* that’s in there.  There should be a snort_manual.pdf in there as well, but I didn’t see one there (Joel?). I 
do see the latex doc though and this link http://manual.snort.org/ will get you there.  Take the time to really 
understand the areas that impact you (for example, do you have SMTP open?  Make sure to understand the README.SMTP 
thoroughly).  I usually find something I didn’t know before, or answers to questions I haven’t even asked yet ;)  Hope 
that helps.

James
 
On Oct 27, 2013, at 7:04 AM, Roland RoLaNd <r_o_l_a_n_d () hotmail com> wrote:

> James, yes that was of tremendous help. 
>
> Do you suggest of any ebook or site i can learn more about snort? 
>
> you,others and this list in general have helped me every time i asked a question which i'm thankful for, but i want 
> to start learning snort all together instead of getting answers about specific questions.
> The only ebooks i could find dates 2004..2006 ...
>
>
> > To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> > Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:59:47 -0600
> > From: jlay () slave-tothe-box net
> > Subject: Re: [Snort-users] disabling specific snort rules
> >
> > On 2013-10-24 08:42, Roland RoLaNd wrote:
> > > Thank you james,
> > > that did it for me.
> > >
> > > another question related to rules if i may ?
> > > i'm receiving high alert of false positive. using BASE i'm getting
> > > thousands of alerts to a specific destination which is my own remote
> > > server.
> > > may i ask of a way to exclude certain destinations (IPs or ports) 
> > > from
> > > triggering alerts?
> >
> > Check out the threshold.conf file for getting IP's to stop 
> > alerting...also works with specific rules. If you're sure you don't 
> > want to see a specific host ever, then I'd use a bpf when starting 
> > snort:
> >
> > snort -c /etc/snort/conf "not myserverip"
> >
> > for example. Hope that helps.
> >
> > James
> >
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