Re: flex response and cisco span ports

[Rich Adamson <radamson () routers com>]

"Use" of a switch port while the port is being used to mirror other ports
has changed between different versions of Cisco software, and varys from
one vendor's switch to another. The current Cisco versions (for small
switches) seem to be oriented towards allowing the use of the port
while the large switches (=>4000) have an optional parameter to turn 
the function on or off. User's choice.

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> This is not correct...I use port monitoring and port spanning on my switched
> networks..and have no problem sending and recieving data on these ports.....
> ----- Original Message -----
> > > When snort has to respond [ie, send RST packets] I assume it
> > > sends them out the interface it is listening on?
> > > How does this work when monitoring a cisco switched network?
> > > Once I make a port a monitor port, it is read-only and nothing
> > > can be sent out on it, so what I've done in the past is put 2
> > > interfaces on my snort sensors.  One is a listener, the other
> > > is the "management" port that I ssh to, etc, etc.
> >
> > In my experience, this is wrong on both counts. I have successfully used
> > real live machines (both by accident *and* by design; long story) with
> real
> > live IP addresses plugged into a Cisco SPAN (port mirror, monitoring, call
> > it what you will) port on Catalyst 2924XL and 3524/3548XL switches. It can
> > make emergency oh-my-god-everything-broke situations a little more
> bearable
> > if you can sniff *and* make external connections thru the same NIC,
> > especially when you have a laptop with a single interface... and you need
> to
> > just dig that MAC address out of that remote database which is not on your
> > laptop!
> >
> > > So I guess my question is this.. Can I make the sensor send it's
> > > flex-response packets out the 'mgmt' port instead?  Surely
> > > there are other people with an environment like this [snort,
> > > cisco catalyst switches, flex-response] .. What's everyone else
> > > doing?
> >
> > As far as I'm aware, snort chucks its' flexresp packets out via *the
> default
> > gateway* therefore it spits them out thru whatever interface your default
> > route points at.
> >
> > YMMV obviously, but as far back as the initial implementations of flexresp
> > snort didn't do anything too fancy, just generated the packets and dropped
> > them on the IP stack for the kernel to handle as it pleased. I'm not too
> > proud to stand corrected, mind you!
> >
> > Graeme
> > --
> > Graeme Fowler
> > System Administrator
> > Host Europe Group PLC
> >
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