Re: Snort-users Digest, Vol 48, Issue 45

[Pedro Marinho <pppmarinho () gmail com>]

Hello,

Thanks for the reply. The icmp rules are disabled. I did disable some unused
rules and some rules that are bad for the detection engine. After that the
dropped packet rate did fall to 20% Still high so i have to study which more
rules i have to disable here.


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> Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 08:59:59 -0400
> From: firewalZ <firewalz () gmail com>
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] snort not generating lots of alerts
> To: Pedro Marinho <pppmarinho () gmail com>
> Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
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> Try running snort from the command line to display packets (like
> tcpdump), make sure to sniff from the same interface you are using in
> snort.conf, make sure you see bidirectional traffic.
> Also, make sure you uncomment the rule catagories you want to use, I
> think its near the bottom of snort.conf, I believe there is an icmp
> rule set that is noisy.
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Pedro Marinho <pppmarinho () gmail com>
> wrote:
> > Hello gentlemen,
> >
> > I would like to ask if someone could post a snort.conf example for a
> sensor
> > that monitors a Microsoft Windows environment.. i think is something
> wrong
> > with my sensors.. i don?t know if it is because i have 2 or more
> instances
> > of snort running or maybe some misconfiguration..
> >
> > i would be very thankfull for some help
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