Re: snort event filtering

[Russ Combs <rcombs () sourcefire com>]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:52 PM, amin Salehi <seyedamin_salehi () yahoo com>wrote:

> hi.i write the following command in threshold.conf:
> event_filter gen_id 1, sig_id 1000001, track by_src, type both,count 3,
> seconds 10
> according to snort 2.9.3.1 manual this command mean that if 3 match occur
> then process 1 event in 10 seconds.
> but when i run snort from begining in every 10 second 1 event is
> processed(1 alert display on screen).what is the problem?
>
> That is working correctly.  From the manual:

"Type both alerts once per time interval after seeing m occurrences of the
  event, then ignores any additional events during the time interval."


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