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Re: how to create testing data files??
From: waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:57:28 -0400
On 8/16/2010 10:30, Ryan Jordan wrote:
[quote] Note that Snort will not try to determine whether the files under that directory are really pcap files or not. [/quote]This means that your directory better have pcap files in it, because Snort's going to try and load them as pcaps! :) Perhaps this is something we can make a little more clear.
i would say so because i read it that snort wouldn't care in this case if they are pcaps or plain text/binary files... i mean, heck, "i" just want to create a file of "aaaaABCxEFGaaaa" and feed it to snort to see if that rule fires based on that string ;)
When I'm testing rules or things I've developed, I typically use Scapy to craft pcaps. At one point, I used the following setup for more rapid (but less repeatable!) testing: Get 2 hosts. I used my workstation and a VM. On one end, named "foobar", run netcat in listen mode: [ryan@foobar]$ nc -l -p 5555 On the other end, connect with netcat: [ryan@snortdev]$ nc foobar 5555 On the client's end, I ran Snort with my rules to test. I used a BPF to get only this traffic: [ryan@snortdev]$ snort -c testing.conf -i eth0 -F my_bpf.txt -A cmg -k none The contents of my BPF: [ryan@snortdev]$ cat my_bpf.txt host foobar and port 5555 Finally, I can just type stuff into my netcat window and watch the alerts pop up in my Snort window. I found this to be useful when I was debugging some pattern matcher weirdness in the Sensitive Data preprocessor. This approach is less useful if you want to save your tests and script them up to be run later -- pcaps are great for this. You'll also run into trouble if you want to test a more complex protocol than raw text over TCP, but we'll save that for another day. :)
thanks for that... i'm sure it will be helpful to some... sadly, though, it made my eyes cross and i had to use sandpaper on them to be able to write this :? getting old too soon and too fast :( ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
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- Re: how to create testing data files?? waldo kitty (Aug 14)
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