Re: Pass rule not passing preprocessors

[Chris Green <cmg () sourcefire com>]

"Always Bishan" <bishan4u () yahoo co uk> writes:

> Hi Snorters,
>
> I wrote a pass rule which will pass anything coming
> from one machine.
> pass tcp 192.168.1.2 -> any any
> pass icmp 192.168.1.2 -> any any
> pass udp 192.168.1.2 -> any any

[...]

> Now by writing this pass rule I'm able to avoid any
> alerts from my rules directory, but preprocessors are
> still generating alerts. 
>
> Is there anyway to avoid this?

If you want to omit traffic from that machine completely, disable all
traffic from it in your bpf filter for snort.

snort <command args> not host 192.168.1.2
-- 
Chris Green <cmg () sourcefire com>
To err is human, to moo bovine.


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