Re: Snort IGNORES var HOME_NET

[Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc com>]

Hmm, what is your EXTERNAL_NET specified as? by default it is set to any, 
so until you change that, you will get alerts for home - to - home attacks.


At 09:18 AM 5/3/2002 +0000, counterping () uk2 net wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> I am fairly new to the world of Snort and hopefully someone maybe able to 
> help
> me out: (1.83 ver)
>
> I have set up several networks within the home_net variable under snort.conf
> var HOME_NET
> [64.6.189.0/24,172.16.10.0/24,10.10.60.10/24,10.10.30.0/16,192.168.10.0/24,192.1
> 68.20.0/24]
>
> However, SNORT seems to IGNORE these networks as my Home Networks and send
> alarms for HOME to HOME intrusions.
>
> For example,
> I am still seeing lots of alarms from my 172.16.10.0 home network to my
> 10.10.30.0 home network,
> If a particular rule specifies EXTERNAL_NET -> HOME_NET surely I should 
> NOT get
> alerted when the packet is sent from my home network to another home network ?
> i.e 172.16.10.35 -----> 10.10.30.10
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated
>
> Martin
>
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