Re: Questions after 1.9.1 install

[Erek Adams <erek () snort org>]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, John Sage wrote:

> Hey Erek, thanks for the sendmail help. Now that that's at least
> kinda working, it's on to more important stuff :-)

:)

> heh..
>
> Basically, 1.8.7 worked so well that I've just been lurking. Been so
> busy with other stuff that I haven't been a real participant..

Ahhh...  Ok, then you're going to see some differences.  There's been
quite a few changes since then.  Changelog should give you the really
important ones.

> hrm.. Don't recall seeing this until I got fancy and put on 1.9.1, on
> top of a complete rebuild: KRUD Linux 7.3, which is basically Red Hat,
> fully patched, with a lot of extras Red Hat doesn't distribute.. Teach
> me to get fancy and try to maintain my systems :-/

Then it may have changed in 1.8.9, but it has been that way since the
1.8.something versions.

Awww, Sounds like you had just a 'little' fun with it.  ;-)

> Not at all: I should have mentioned that. The specific port rule is
> first, followed by port ranges after..

Ok, so much for that one.

> Is there any mandatory rule syntax for 1.9.1 that I'm not aware of?

Nothing really special.

> Or do both rules look syntactically correct for 1.9.1?

With as basic of a rule as you have, it's fine.

> By some chance does -o re-order (reverse-order) rules *within* the
> class "alert", as well as re-oder the classes of rules themselves?

Hrm...  Not to my knowledge.  I'd have to read thru the code to say for
sure.

> Suspected as much.
>
> Dynamic IP address: can portscan2-ignorehosts reference $HOME_NET or
> ppp0_ADDRESS?

Yep.  $ppp0_ADDRESS is just a variable.  You can put it anywhere you would
a regular variable.

Cheers!

-----
Erek Adams

   "When things get weird, the weird turn pro."   H.S. Thompson


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