Re: No TCP alerts, only UDP and ICMP

[Russ Combs <rcombs () sourcefire com>]

Lots of good ideas but we really need more data.  Please run Snort and
capture all output, including shutdown stats, to a file and send that.  If
you run from command line, just redirect stderr to a file.

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Peter Bates <peter.bates () ucl ac uk> wrote:

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> Hello all
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> On 10/12/2012 19:15, Y M wrote:
> > Snort statistics, some of it at least:
> >
> > ICMP: 0.186%
> > UDP: 17.929%
> > TCP: 48.667%
> > Dropped: 0
> > Analyzed: 247964 (100%)
>
> It's a long shot, but I have seen this on a sensor
> that was only receiving one side of conversations due
> to a misconfiguration on the SPAN side (not all VLANs had been added
> to the monitoring session for in/out).
>
> The ICMP and UDP rules (particularly things like ZeroAccess) will always
> hit if you're seeing outbound only but the TCP rules that track state
> (using flowbits) will obviously never alert.
>
> It might be worth looking at a tcpdump from a specific source/destination
> just to confirm you are seeing outbound and inbound.
>
> - --
> Peter Bates
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