Re: Rule Chaining

["Esler, Joel CNTR/Sytex" <joel.esler () rcert-s army mil>]

Rule chaining can be done with "Activate" and "Dynamic" can it not?


Joel

On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 11:44 -0500, Matt Kettler wrote:

> At 12:25 AM 2/25/2005, Madhur Nagar wrote:
> > Hi
> > I wanted to knw that does SNORT allow
> > 1. Rule Chaining - one rule calling another
>
> Not that I'm aware of.
>
> > 2. Stateful Checking - Checking for a content in say
> > 10 packets and only if the content of all the 10
> > matches then take some action
>
> No, but this can be approximated with the threshold keyword.
>
> > 3. Remote Rule Updation
>
>
> Eh? "rule updating"? Yes, snort rules can be updated, but that's done 
> outside of snort. There's even a handy tool called oinkmaster to help 
> automate it.
>
>
> > I would also be grateful if someone could please tell
> > me in which files is the source code for the rules
> > related to the above topics
>
> Sorry, I don't know off the top of my head.. do some grepping for threshold 
> in the code.
>
>
>
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Esler, Joel CNTR/Sytex <joel.esler () rcert-s army mil>