Re: Testing Snort

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

www.snort.org/search has the documentation for all rules that have written documentation.  Depending on the 
documentation it'll have information like that.


On Jan 30, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Josh Bitto <jbitto () onlineschool ca> wrote:

> Is there a wiki or a Descriptions database that goes into more detail on rules when they fire?
>  
> From: Justin Knox [mailto:jknox () indexzero org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 11:22 AM
> To: Jeremy Hoel
> Cc: Josh Bitto; Snort Users
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Testing Snort
>  
> Another possibility would be to use tcpreplay[1] and some captures from some of the known repositories [2,3]. If 
> you're trying to prove out snort inline in this manner, you might need to spend some time making sure you've got your 
> lab bench laid out as needed so you can do this though. 
>  
> If you can, you might want to also try snagging a capture of the traffic you're looking to monitor and/or control and 
> use tcpreplay on your bench to prove out background noise, and maybe even look into tuning your ruleset prior to 
> deployment. 
>  
> [1] http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/
> [2] https://www.evilfingers.com/repository/pcaps.php
> [3] http://pcapr.net/home
>  
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Jeremy Hoel <jthoel () gmail com> wrote:
> Then you best bet is to through a scan or known bad traffic at a
> target.. so it cross the wire and you can see it as expected.  There's
> lots of different tools to do that.
>
> Or, write a custom rule looking for a payload and use hping to send
> that payload.  Then you've verified that your local rules are working
> and that it sees traffic on the wire from one host to another.
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Josh Bitto <jbitto () onlineschool ca> wrote:
> > Well I have snort running on a test lab to see how well it actually runs. I figured out my problem that I had in 
> > pfsense. I had to bridge my WAN and LAN together for snort to actually start. That being said I can see alerts and 
> > that all works. Now my real work is to be started and test to make sure that snort runs ok with our network. So I 
> > want to similate bad traffic so I can so my boss and say hey this works let's use it...
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeremy Hoel [mailto:jthoel () gmail com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 9:25 AM
> > To: Josh Bitto
> > Cc: Snort Users
> > Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Testing Snort
> >
> > If you want to see if it alerts on packets in general, you can load PCAPs from a number of sources and read them 
> > through to see if the rules fire.  If you want to see that it's seeing network traffic and alerting, you can make a 
> > local rule for something and then send that traffic and see if that fires.
> >
> > Otherwise, what are you trying to test?
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Josh Bitto <jbitto () onlineschool ca> wrote:
> > > Does anyone know of a good tool to use to test my IPS? I know of
> > > Metasploit...but I'm not sure if there is something that is better or
> > > something broader in spectrum to test.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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