Re: Sourcefire VRT Rules and Snort Active Response

[Russ Combs <rcombs () sourcefire com>]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Jason D. McCormick <jasonmc () sei cmu edu>wrote:

> > > I am correct in my understanding that when executed this
> > > way the Sourcefire VRT rulesets will not actively
> > > response since Snort isn't operating in inline mode, yes?
>
> > Snort can still send active responses in IDS mode, so make
> > sure that this line or similar is commented out of your
> > snort.conf:
>
> > # config response: eth0 attempts 2.
>
> Yes it is, and that's how it comes from Sourcefire in the VRT ruleset too.
>  I just wanted to make sure there wasn't some other "default" value that
> made this still work with that line commented out (as opposed to set to 0 or
> something).  Sounds like I'm good then?

Yes.  You can double check that you see this (but it will only show if you
attempted to enable):

WARNING: active responses disabled since DAQ can't inject packets.

And your "Packet I/O Totals" at shutdown should show "Injected:
0".

> - Jason
>
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