Re: http_inspect tuning issue

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

Which would be highly discouraged.    

The suppression will merely eliminate the alert.  You can disable the alert directly within http_inspect if you wish, 
but there won't be any cost savings (referring to Waldo's email).  I am going to file a bug here as something doesn't 
look right.

Shane, do you have packet captures of this activity you can send me off list? 

-- 
Joel Esler


On Tuesday, July 3, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Sunny James Fugate wrote:

> It is my understanding that suppression will just eliminate the output alert and any associated packet capture. You 
> won't incur output I/O for the noisy event (which can be substantial), but will still be doing the processing. Also, 
> since it isn't the result of a detection signature you probably can't disable it completely unless you disable the 
> preprocessor which produced it. 
>
> -Sunny
> 619.208.4417
> sunny.fugate () gmail com (mailto:sunny.fugate () gmail com)
>
> On Jul 3, 2012, at 14:50, waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net (mailto:wkitty42 () windstream net)> wrote:
>
> > On 7/3/2012 10:16, Joel Esler wrote:
> > > Suppress it. That's the easiest way to get rid of the alert if you find it
> > > produces no actionable information for you.
> >
> >
> > does suppression prevent the processing for that alert from taking place or does 
> > it still take place and get dumped to nul?
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