Re: Fine tuning Snort

["James Lay" <jlay () slave-tothe-box net>]

Oh good grief...there it is in pretty blue in vim 8-|  Turning 41
apparently means needing glasses....thanks Joel.

James

> The best examples for suppressions are in the threshold.conf file.
>
> J
>
> On Oct 8, 2010, at 8:47 AM, James Lay wrote:
>
> > What the….I looked all through the snort pdf too and since I didn't see
> > an example showing that I uh…well assumed…..heh..you've saved me a BUNCH
> > of time..thanks Scott.
> >
> > Jam
> >
> > From: ScottO <skippylou () gmail com>
> > Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 08:31:57 -0400
> > To: James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net>
> > Cc: Snort <snort-users () lists sourceforge net>
> > Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Fine tuning Snort
> >
> > James,
> >
> > You can specify cidr notation for address blocks in threshold.conf,
> > something like:
> >
> > suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 11111, track by_src, ip 10.1.2.0/24
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> >
> > scott
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:24 AM, James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net>
> > wrote:
> > > Thanks Waldo,
> > >
> > > It's been quite interesting...I have at least four rules that look for
> > > executables...and as I look at the threshold file I can only threshold
> > > against one IP at a time...meaning I've got a lot of work to do as I
> > > have
> > > to add pretty much most of google and windowsupdate.com ;)  Even
> > > thought
> > > I'm tempted to simply start snort to not monitor those netblocks,
> > > eh...I'd
> > > rather do the right thing.
> > >
> > > Thanks again for the help.
> > >
> > > James
> > >
> > >
> > > On 10/7/10 10:23 PM, "waldo kitty" <wkitty42 () windstream net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 10/7/2010 14:02, James Lay wrote:
> > > > > Kevin and Waldo, you gents are treasuresŠI will get to work and
> > > report
> > > > > my
> > > > > resultsŠthank you much!
> > > >
> > > > something else to thing about concerning rules that you would just
> > > > totally
> > > > suppress in threshold.conf... if they are completely suppressed then
> > > you
> > > > might
> > > > as well comment them out of the rules set so they do not consume any
> > > > memory and
> > > > snort won't waste any time loading them just to be ignoring them...
> > > but i
> > > > guess
> > > > this also depends on your tools and management systems... some may use
> > > > only
> > > > threshold to "disable" rules where others may actually comment them in
> > > > the rules
> > > > sets files... personally, i think the threshold file is best to
> > > suppress
> > > > certain
> > > > rules for certain IPs... total suppression is the same as disabled
> > > so...
> > > > ;)
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