RE: home_net and ext_net question

[Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc com>]

At 02:38 PM 4/24/2003 -0700, Everist, Benjamin S. (NASWI) wrote:

> <snip>
> >Having HOME_NET encapsulate two or more networks can do funny things to the
> >Snort rules when one simply negates EXTERNAL_NET (i.e., var EXTERNAL_NET
> >!$HOME_NET, or some variant).
>
> What kinds of funny things?


It will do funny things if you try to do HOME_NET as a comma-delimited list 
and forget to put ['s around it. Otherwise it should be fine.

![10.0.0.0/8,192.168.1.0/24] is different than ! 10.0.0.0/8,192.168.1.0/24

I suspect this is where the "funny things" experience comes in, from 
someone errantly declaring:

var HOME_NET 10.0.0.0/8,192.168.1.0/24
var EXTERNAL_NET !$HOME_NET


Ooops. 



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