Re: Snort Error

["Al Lewis (allewi)" <allewi () cisco com>]

Looks like you need to set EXTERNAL_NET to something.

Take a look at the default config that comes with the download.


cliffjumper$ less /var/tmp/snort-2.9.8.3/etc/snort.conf | grep EXTERNAL
ipvar EXTERNAL_NET any

Albert Lewis
ENGINEER.SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
SOURCEfire, Inc. now part of Cisco
Email: allewi () cisco com<mailto:allewi () cisco com>

From: Paraskevas Lampadas <parislampadas () gmail com<mailto:parislampadas () gmail com>>
Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 6:51 PM
To: waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net<mailto:wkitty42 () windstream net>>
Cc: 'snort-users' <snort-users () lists sourceforge net<mailto:snort-users () lists sourceforge net>>
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort Error

" FATAL ERROR: /etc/snort/snort.conf(48) Missing argument to EXTERNAL_NET"

The exact error message

Με εκτίμηση,

Λαμπαδάς Πάρης
Μηχανικός Πληροφορικής Τ.Ε.
Cisco Certified Network Associate

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 1:43 AM, Paraskevas Lampadas <parislampadas () gmail com<mailto:parislampadas () gmail com>> 
wrote:
FATAL ERROR variable EXTERNAL_NET not set, or something like that.

Με εκτίμηση,

Λαμπαδάς Πάρης
Μηχανικός Πληροφορικής Τ.Ε.
Cisco Certified Network Associate

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 4:02 AM, <wkitty42 () windstream net<mailto:wkitty42 () windstream net>> wrote:
On 01/17/2017 04:37 PM, Paraskevas Lampadas wrote:
> I tried to make as !$HOME NET, but then the snort fails to load at startup.
> If i change it back to any everything works fine.
>
> How else can i avoid receiving alerts from my internal network?

what is the exact error message given at startup when you set EXTERNAL_NET to
!HOME_NET??

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