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Re: Snort BPF.filter doesn't work
From: Jeremy Hoel <jthoel () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:28:53 +0000
I use BPF filters with no problems. And the traffic from that filter gets ignored. During snort's startup in syslog it records if it's using a BPF or not (at least it does for us doing BPF via file).. maybe go back through and look at your syslog and make sure it's seeing the BPF. Jul 8 04:00:34 mibst001 snort[25704]: Reading filter from bpf file: /etc/snort/bpf.txt we define that in the /etc/sysconfig/snort file BPFFILE=/etc/snort/bpf.txt and the command line option for that is -F <path_to_file> try that and see if it shows anything in your syslog On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Robert Millott < robm () millottandassociates com> wrote:
All Thanx for the replies, but still nothing seems to work. I tried just adding the "not host 192.168.1.1" to the end of my command line, but I keep getting alerts. I tried changing my bpf.filter file to "not((host 192.168.1.1) or (vlan and host 192.168.1.1))", and I still get the alerts. Has any successfully used bpf filters? What I am trying to accomplish is that my snort keeps dying, I think because it is being hit with to much traffic. Some of my links are getting peaks of 500-600Mps. I know snort can only handle 200-300Mps typically, so I want to filter out some of the traffic. My thought was to use bpf filters to ignore certain segments of traffic (maybe all port 80 traffic), then run a second instance of snort to handle just that port 80 traffic and ignore all the rest. If bpf filters is not an option, anyone else got suggestions on how to keep snort from dying due to too much traffic? On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:16 PM, James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net> wrote:On 2014-07-08 12:38, Robert Millott wrote:Anyone else have any experience working with BPF Filters?I have followed all the directions I have been able to find and set up my filters, but a test rule I created continues to fire, even though the bpf filter should ignore that host entirely. Thank you On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Robert Millott <robm () millottandassociates com [9]> wrote:unfortunately, my snort install is on a non-internet connected network so I cant provide the .conf file. my command to start snort is: /usr/bin/snort -c /etc/snort/snort1.conf -G 0x11 --pid-path /etc/snort/ --nolock-pidfile --daq pcap --dap-dir /usr/lib64/daq --daq-mode passive -i enps50f0 -F /etc/snort/bpf.filter -D snort version is 2.9.6 GRE (Build 47) host OS is 3.14.4 gentoo Thanx for the help On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Nicholas Mavis (nmavis) <nmavis () cisco com [8]> wrote:Robert, Can you provide the following: * Copy of your snort.conf * The syntax in which you are starting Snort * What version of Snort are you using? -Nick From: Robert Millott <robm () millottandassociates com [4]> Date: Thursday, July 3, 2014 at 1:16 PM To: nmavis <nmavis () cisco com [5]>, snort-users <snort-users () lists sourceforge net [6]> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort BPF.filter doesnt work Nick Thanx for the suggestion. Unfortunately, same results. The startup screen shows it reads the file, but the alert keeps showing up in my logs. On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Nicholas Mavis (nmavis) <nmavis () cisco com [7]> wrote:Robert, Try the following without any additions: not host 192.168.1.1 -Nick From: Robert Millott <robm () millottandassociates com [1]> Date: Thursday, July 3, 2014 at 12:14 PM To: "snort-users () lists sourceforge net [2]" <snort-users () lists sourceforge net [3]> Subject: [Snort-users] Snort BPF.filter doesnt work I am trying to filter some data. I created a rule in my misc.rules that I know will always fire, ie alert tcp any any -> 192.168.1.1 80 (msg:"my test rule"; sid: 60999; rev:1) That rule fires constantly whenever I go to the website at 192.168.1.1 I then create a /etc/snort/bpf.filter that contains one line !(host 192.168.1.1) I then edited snort.conf and uncomment the bfp.filter line so it reads config bpf_file: /etc/snort/bpf.filter When I run snort and watch /var/log/messages, the above alert continues to fire. I also tried using it with the command line option of -F /etc/snort/bpf.filter. This didnt work either. I also tried bpf.filter to read (not host 192.168.1.1) that didnt work either. When I start snort, I see the line that reads Snort BPF Option: !(host 192.168.1.1) and yet I still see my above test alert message in my /var/log/messages. Anyone know why the bpf.filter isnt filtering the data? -- Robert Millott President, Millott and Associates (443) 255-3588Just pass it direct: /usr/bin/snort -c /etc/snort/snort1.conf -G 0x11 --pid-path /etc/snort/ --nolock-pidfile --daq pcap --dap-dir /usr/lib64/daq --daq-mode passive -i enps50f0 not host 192.168.1.1 James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=snort-users Please visit http://blog.snort.org to stay current on all the latest Snort news!-- Robert Millott President, Millott and Associates (443) 255-3588 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=snort-users Please visit http://blog.snort.org to stay current on all the latest Snort news!
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