Re: Difference between drop and reject rules

[Russ <rucombs () cisco com>]

On 2/12/15 2:33 AM, Mark Greenman wrote:
> Thanks for your response and sorry that I'm answering a little late.
> You are right sir. But I think active responses are needed for 
> "reject" rules. Actually, based on the manual snort must sent TCP 
> reset or ICMP unreachable for reject rules and not for the drop rules. 
> I think what I see is that "drop" and "reject" work exactly the same.
They are the same only because your config tells Snort to handle drops 
as rejects.  This config allows drops and rejects to work "at face value":

config response: attempts 1
#
preprocessor stream5_global: track_tcp yes, track_udp no
preprocessor stream5_tcp: policy linux
#
drop tcp any any -> any 80 ( sid:1; msg:"block only"; content:"foo"; )
reject tcp any any -> any 80 ( sid:2; msg:"block and reject"; 
content:"bar"; )

> Thanks again
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Russ <rucombs () cisco com 
> <mailto:rucombs () cisco com>> wrote:
>
>     You have active responses enabled with the configuration below. 
>     That causes Snort to send TCP resets or ICMP unreachables when a
>     session is blocked.
>
>     preprocessor stream5_global: track_tcp yes, \
>     ...
>        max_active_responses 2, \
>        min_response_seconds 5
>
>
>     On 2/8/15 5:22 AM, Mark Greenman wrote:
> >     The configuration file, the rules and a pcap file captured at the
> >     client side are attached to the email.
> >     Thanks
> >
> >     On 2/7/15, Joel Esler (jesler)<jesler () cisco com>  <mailto:jesler () cisco com>  wrote:
> > >     Drop shouldn't send anything.  So if you are seeing this, we need your
> > >     configuration, rules, and a pcap.
> > >
> > >     --
> > >     Joel Esler
> > >     Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > >     On Feb 7, 2015, at 8:29 AM, Mark Greenman
> > >     <mark.greenman.014 () gmail com  <mailto:mark.greenman.014 () gmail com><mailto:mark.greenman.014 () gmail com>  
> > > <mailto:mark.greenman.014 () gmail com>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     Hi. Do you know why both drop and reject rules work exactly the same. The
> > >     manual says that drop rules must not sent RST packets but they do? Does
> > >     anyone know the reason?
> > >
> > >     Thanks
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