Re: sfportscan tuning

[Joel Esler <joel.esler () sourcefire com>]

Have you looked that the readme?

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On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:47 AM, "Kamran Shafi" <kamran.shafi () gmail com>  
wrote:

> Oops guess I replied to personal address.
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Kamran Shafi  
> <kamran.shafi () gmail com> wrote:
> Thanks for a quick reply Joel,
>
> In the conf file there are apparently only three levels (low, medium  
> and high) of sensitivity that you can set for sfportscan  
> preprocessor which I believe have their thresholds set internally. I  
> understand that the local and global thresholds can be configured  
> using threshold directives at rule level or globally but that does  
> not seem to effect the preprocessor settings. I am actually  
> simulating some scanning activity which is being detected by the  
> portscan preprocessor, but I want snort to alert more often than it  
> is doing with the high sensitivity.
>
> What am I missing and sorry for my ignorance :(.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Joel Esler <joel.esler () sourcefire com 
> > wrote:
> Take a look at the snort.conf file in the etc/ directory.  All your  
> config options are in there.  The README is in doc/
>
> J
>
> On Mar 11, 2008, at 8:10 PM, Kamran Shafi wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Do I need to change the threshold settings of portscan preprocessor  
> > in src/preprocessors/portscan.c  or is there a softer way of  
> > changing the thresholds for the alerts generated by this  
> > preprocessor??
> >
> > Do I need to uninstall Snort first when I modify the .c file and  
> > then recompile? I earlier installed Snort using the package  
> > manager, I guess after doing this change I will just need to follow  
> > the standard sequence of make
> >
> > make clean
> > ./configure
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > Am I right or missing some step? Sorry if its a very basic question  
> > - just didn't want to stuff up my existing setup.
> >
> > --
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> > Kam  
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