Re: Snort-1.8.7 + snmp support

[twig les <twigles () yahoo com>]

Go into the misc.rules file and comment out the
offending rules.


--- "Schlottmann, Philipp, HO"
<Philipp.Schlottmann () de bertrandt com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I configured snort with mysql database output and
> snmp trap sending support.
>
> I only once force an event being triggered by using
> "nmap -sS someIP" and
> snort does produce an enormous neverending amount of
> SNMP traps (UDP). I
> checked it with tcpdump and grep'ed the community
> string. The SNMP traps
> themselves being again recognized by snort cause
> kind of an endless loop! My
> ACID console with underlying mysql snort db gets
> performance problems and so
> on.
>
> How comes that snort produces SNMP traps all the
> time just because of one
> triggered signature...and it never ends up with
> that?
>
> How can I fix this? Is there a way to tell snort not
> to recognize the snmp
> traps it produced itself or to produce less traps or
> at least end up within
> some time?
>
> Thanx a lot!
>
> Philipp Schlottmann
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