Re: ERROR: Undefined variable name: (/etc/snort/rules/bad-traffic.rules:12): EXTERNAL_NET

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

--On Saturday, April 09, 2005 06:24:38 PM +0900 Mark Sargent 
<powderkeg () snow email ne jp> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> anyone seen this error b4..? I've checked my snort.conf file and
> confirmed that the rules path = /etc/snort/rules,
[snip]
> [root@localhost snort]# /usr/local/bin/snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -i
> eth0 -g snort
[snip]
> ERROR: Undefined variable name: (/etc/snort/rules/bad-traffic.rules:12):
> EXTERNAL_NET
> Fatal Error, Quitting..
Look in bad-traffic.rules.  You will probably find a rule there that uses 
"EXTERNAL_NET" instead of "$EXTERNAL_NET".  IOW, a type.  Or, you haven't 
defined EXTERNAL_NET in your snort.conf file.

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu


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