RE: new user - snort is not droping pacekts

["Chris Vaughan" <chrisv () parkavebank com>]

Snort-inline is exactly that, it must be inline between the host you want to monitor, and the network. If you want to 
monitor traffic from a span port on a switch, or from a passive Ethernet tap, or you just don't want to introduce 
another point of failure in your network, you use snort.

 -----Original Message-----
From:   snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net [mailto:snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net]  On Behalf Of 
lokesh.khanna () accelonafrica com
Sent:   Tuesday, February 15, 2005 10:07 AM
To:     Alex.Butcher () bristol ac uk; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject:        RE: [Snort-users] new user - snort is not droping pacekts

Hi

Thanks again.

If I understand correctly, snort-inline is capable of sending TCP RST to
drop the session. So it will only drop hacking attempts packets (depend
on signature). It will not drop genuine packet from same host. This is
how manhunt works. 

Secondly I don't understand why people use Snort instead of
snort-inline.
What are advantages and disadvantages of using snort and snort-inline?

Cordially,
LK

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Butcher, ISC/ISYS [mailto:Alex.Butcher () bristol ac uk] 
Sent: 15 February 2005 14:39
To: Lokesh Khanna; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: RE: [Snort-users] new user - snort is not droping pacekts



--On 15 February 2005 10:47 +0100 lokesh.khanna () accelonafrica com wrote:

> Thanks again for reply.
> But it is confusing me more. As per my knowledge I can not set a rule
> using IPCHAIN which will drop a packets based on content in the
packet.
> What I am able to understand is if I use IDS in INLINE mode, IDS will
> act as a router and based on alerts, IDS will insert rules in IPTABLE.

See <http://www.snort.org/docs/snort_manual/node7.html>

Essentially, when running in inline mode, Snort can either cause the 
*packet* matching a rule to be dropped (with or without logging), or it
can 
reject the packet (using TCP RST or ICMP dest unreachable packets) so as
to 
terminate the session.

Snort running in inline mode won't blacklist all traffic from 
alert-generating hosts, unless you use flexresp or snortsam to tie it in

with a firewall (be that iptables/netfilter, Cisco, or FW-1)

> I can have a genuine traffic from an IP address and virus traffic from
> same IP address. So content of that packet will define if packet
should
> drop or it should not. How IPCHAIN will handle this?

To be honest, this perhaps isn't the best place to ask about snort
inline - 
I haven't used it, so everything I've told you has come from reading the

snort manual, <http://snort-inline.sourceforge.net/index.html> and 
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/snort-inline/>.

> Cordially,
>
> LK

HTH,
Alex.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Butcher, ISC/ISYS [mailto:Alex.Butcher () bristol ac uk]
> Sent: 15 February 2005 10:34
> To: Lokesh Khanna; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> Subject: RE: [Snort-users] new user - snort is not droping pacekts
>
>
>
> --On 15 February 2005 10:23 +0100 lokesh.khanna () accelonafrica com
wrote:
> > I remember in real secure or manhunt, I used to configure a port in
> > mirroring mode on switch and I put IDS on that port. All our traffic
> was
> > going through that mirrored port. Based on rules defined in IDS, it
> was
> > dropping / logging packets.
>
> Logging, yes, but those products would only have been dropping (i.e.
> blocking, rejecting) packets if they were interacting with a firewall
or
> router in some way (or they were running in some kind of IPS mode,
which
> you seem to indicate was not the case).
>
> > If I understand correctly, do I need to pass all traffic through IDS
> > box.
>
> If you're using inline mode, yes, the snort machine will be acting as
a
> router (actually an Intrusion _Prevention_ System or IPS). See
> <http://snort-inline.sourceforge.net/> and README.INLINE for more info
> on
> inline mode. Note that 2.3.0 integrates the inline stuff IIRC.
>
> > IDS will act as a router also. And based on alerts, IDS will make
> > modification in IPCHAIN and will drop or allow packets.
>
> See the above site for the details.
>
> > Or is there any other way out? How can I find out documents on this?
>
> <http://www.snortsam.net/> and README.FLEXRESP and README.FLEXRESP2 in
> the
> snort docs.
>
> > Cordially,
> > LK
>
> Best Regards,
> Alex.



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