Re: Problem with "Established" keyword

[Ryan Russell <ryan () thievco com>]

Chris Green wrote:
> The most typical reason this happens is bad checksums on packets
> somewhere. It's not outside the realm of possibility that something
> else is screwed up.

Jeremy from Sourcefire was trying to help me off-list.  Unfortunately, 
my reproducable test case has stopped reproducing.

The only difference (that I can see) is that the machine config outside 
of Snort has been changed.  It's now also acting as a router and firewall.

The test I was doing was with a standard browser on an external Windows 
client, and Apache running on the OpenBSD box itself.  I was able to do 
the test several times, with and without the "established" in my rule, 
and the problem followed the "established" each time.  The web server 
and browser were responsing appropriately for the tests I was doing, and 
this was with the OpenBSD box and Windows box plugged into the same hub. 
 So, I believe that corrupt packets were not likely the cause, but I 
appreciate the suggestion.

I can only think it may be some weirdness with the local IP stack and pcap?

                                        Ryan



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