Re: Host Attribute Table Question

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

If Snort has an entry in the host attribute table for the IP that the traffic is going to, Snort will use that entry 
for reassembly.  Otherwise it uses the snort.conf config.

J

On Nov 11, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Andy Berryman wrote:

> If I have a host attribute table that has windows and linux hosts in it, and my snort.conf looks like the below text; 
> what does snort do when it see’s traffic for one of the linux hosts in the table?
> Does it still give it the windows stream5 policy?
>  
>  
> preprocessor frag3_global: max_frags 65536, prealloc_memcap 1073741824
> preprocessor frag3_engine: policy first detect_anomalies timeout 180
> #preprocessor frag3_engine: policy last detect_anomalies timeout 180
> #preprocessor frag3_engine: policy linux detect_anomalies timeout 180
> #preprocessor frag3_engine: policy bsd detect_anomalies timeout 180
> preprocessor stream5_global: max_tcp 1048576, memcap 1073741824, track_tcp yes, track_udp no
> preprocessor stream5_tcp: policy windows, use_static_footprint_sizes, dont_store_large_packets, ports client 21 22 23 
> 25 42 53 79 80 109 110 111 113 119 135 136 137 139 143 110 111 161 445 513 514 691 1433 1521 2100 2301 3128 3306 6665 
> 6666 6667 6668 6669 7000 8000 8080 8180 8888 32770 32771 32772 32773 32774 32775 32776 32777 32778 32779, ports both 
> 443 465 563 636 989 992 993 994 995 7801 7702 7900 7901 7902 7903 7904 7905 7906 6907 7908 7909 7910 7911 7912 7913 
> 7914 7915 7916 7917 7918 7919 7920
> preprocessor stream5_udp: ignore_any_rules
>  
> Thanks,
> Andy Berryman
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