Re: suppressing all signatures from a particular generator

[Victor Roemer <vroemer () sourcefire com>]

Could you provide your entire threshold configuration?

Thanks


On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:50 AM, James Davis <james.davis () ja net> wrote:

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> Running 2.9.3.1
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> I'd like to suppress a lot of alerts created by some generators, in
> particular although I want the functionality of the http_inspect
> preprocessor I'm not interested in the alerts it raises.
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> In my threshold.conf I have:
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> suppress gen_id 120, sig_id 1
> suppress gen_id 120, sig_id 2
> suppress gen_id 120, sig_id ...
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> but if I replace this with
>
> suppress gen_id 120, sig_id 0
>
> as documented at http://manual.snort.org/node19.html snort refuses to
> start with the following error
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> "ERROR: threshold.conf(74) suppress could not be created"
>
> Has this feature been removed?
>
> James
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