Re: ignore ping

[Roberto Suarez Soto <robe () alfa21 com>]

On May/24, Jim Williams wrote:

> I am running snort on one end of a vpn and also have a recurring ping
> through the tunnel.  Is there a way to have snort ignore the ping
> source?  Then host is part of $HOME_NET.

        The quickest and safest (IMHO) way is to create a rule that ignores
icmp just from the remote to the local IP. That's the way I'd do it, at least
:-)

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Roberto Suarez Soto                                     Alfa21 Outsourcing
    robe () alfa21 com                               http://www.alfa21.com

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