Re: disabling specific snort rules

[James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net>]

On 2013-10-24 08:42, Roland RoLaNd wrote:
> Thank you james,
> that did it for me.
>
> another question related to rules if i may ?
> i'm receiving high alert of false positive. using BASE i'm getting
> thousands of alerts to a specific destination which is my own remote
> server.
> may i ask of a way to exclude certain destinations (IPs or ports) 
> from
> triggering alerts?

Check out the threshold.conf file for getting IP's to stop 
alerting...also works with specific rules.  If you're sure you don't 
want to see a specific host ever, then I'd use a bpf when starting 
snort:

snort -c /etc/snort/conf "not myserverip"

for example.  Hope that helps.

James

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