Re: [commercial] False positive

[Philip Edwards <phil.e () clara net>]

Thanks.

However i knew that i had the source and destination port the wrong way round. It was a deliberate ploy :)
My question really is why is the sameip feature of the rule firing when the source and destination port are clearly 
different.

Phil.


On 16 May 2012, at 12:08, Philip Edwards wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have recently installed snort on ubuntu and am just attempting to tune out the noise.
> For some reason the BAD-TRAFFIC (same source and destination) rule is firing on DHCP broadcasts.
>
> The source is 0.0.0.0 port 67 and the destination is 255.255.255.255 port 68.
>
> Since the source and destination are different can anyone clue me in?
>
> Thanks
>
> Phil Edwards
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