Re: High PatMatch

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

No. But it may be interesting to figure out what the traffic is first.  

Lots of malware that I see takes place over non-standard ports.  

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On Oct 18, 2011, at 6:11 PM, eltra1n <larry.wichman () gmail com> wrote:

> I'm trying to reduce my high PatMatch percentage, which is at about
> 100%. According to the manual, I need to reduce the amount of traffic
> that is reassembled. I analyzed  flow data and it appears that most
> traffic is high port to high port. I would like to ignore this using
> either "ignore ports" or BPF filters. Before I go down the BPF path,
> is there any way to  do it with "ignore_ports"? It looks like you can
> only list each port. Any way to do 1024-65535?
>
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