Re: "Adapter is in Passive Mode" Warning

[Y M <snort () outlook com>]

You have to explicitly tell snort and DAQ to run in inline mode, either from the command line or the through the DAQ 
section in snort.conf file. Setting policy_mode:inline alone is not enough.

"reject" is an inline action; it did not work because it requires that snort/DAQ to be running in inline mode and will 
not trigger in passive mode; hence "alert" would work as expected in passive mode.

YM
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From: Ricky Huang<mailto:rhuang.work () gmail com>
Sent: ‎3/‎8/‎2013 11:17 AM
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Subject: Re: [Snort-users] "Adapter is in Passive Mode" Warning

Anyone… help?

On Mar 6, 2013, at 3:01 PM, Ricky Huang <rhuang.work () gmail com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was playing Snort rules and noticed the following doesn't work:
> > reject ICMP any any -> $HOME_NET any (msg:"Shut this rule off, it works now"; sid:100000;)
>
> While
> > alert ICMP any any -> $HOME_NET any (msg:"Shut this rule off, it works now"; sid:100000;)
> works fine.
>
> So I ran snort with -T flag and noticed:
> > WARNING: /usr/local/etc/snort/snort.conf(641) Adapter is in Passive Mode. Hence switching policy mode to tap.
>
>
> Line 641 of snort.conf is where I tried to set policy to "inline" ("config policy_mode:inline").
>
>
> Is there supposed to be a build flag to enable IPS capability on Snort? I looked at my FreeBSD ports option:
>
> > # make showconfig
> > ===> The following configuration options are available for snort-2.9.4_1:
> >      BARNYARD=on: Depend on Barnyard2
> >      DBGSNORT=off: Enable debugging symbols+core dumps
> >      FLEXRESP3=on: Enable flexible response on events (v3)
> >      GRE=on: Enable GRE support
> >      IPV6=on: IPv6 protocol
> >      LRGPCAP=off: Enable pcaps larger than 2GB
> >      MPLS=on: MPLS support
> >      NORMALIZER=on: Enable normalizer
> >      PERFPROFILE=on: Enable performance profiling
> >      PULLEDPORK=on: Depend on pulledpork
> >      REACT=on: Enable react
> >      SNORTSAM=off: Enable unofficial Snortsam patch
> >      SOURCEFIRE=on: Enable Sourcefire-specific build options
> >      TARGETBASED=on: Enable targetbased support
> >      ZLIB=on: Enable GZIP support
>
> and couldn't seem to find any…
>
>
> Thanks!

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