Re: Snort setup help

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

At 09:14 AM 9/1/2004, Darren Reeves wrote:
>  I
> have added all subnets to the HOME_NET but what should i set for
> EXTERNAL_NET.  I would like to be able to catch suspicous traffic
> entering and leaving our network without having an insane amount of
> alerts.

Use this to only look at attacks from the outside targeting your network, 
but ignore attacks between two machines in HOME_NET.

var EXTERNAL_NET !$HOME_NET

you can also switch to "any" if you want to monitor for attacks within your 
lan, but this can be noisy.

var EXTERNAL_NET any






-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop
FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools!
Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today.
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click
_______________________________________________
Snort-users mailing list
Snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users
Snort-users list archive:
http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users