Re: snort funtionallity

[Michael Boman <michael.boman () gmail com>]

Take a deep breath and read my answers below...

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 01:35:08 -0500, Nick Smith <nick () computernick com> wrote:
> isnt there a way to have snort email you when a serious attack occurs? i
> thought i remembered reading that some where but cant find it now.

http://www.snort.org/docs/FAQ.txt
FAQ #5.9

> also
> is ACID the best console for snort? or are they any better ones out
> there?

Personally I swear by SGUIL (www.sguil.net), but that's just me ;)

> and are there any websites with a list of rules to add to
> increase security of your snort install without having to write all the
> rules by hand yourself?

Yes, both www.snort.org and www.bleedingsnort.com updates their rules regulary.

> and where would i add those rules?

If you write your own rules you usually put them in local.rules.

> and finally
> this probably goes along with the previous question; i am getting
> virtually no ICMP (<1%) traffic and no portscan traffic (0%), i know
> there has to be some traffic for those, and i have a fresh install of
> snort running, is there something i have to add to get snort to look for
> that traffic?

Have you enabled the relevant signatures and preprocessors for those?

> thanks for any and all help, im very new to snort and acid and need all
> the help i can get

Don't worry, we all were there at one point of time. My suggestion:
Pick up some books on Network IDS and Snort. TCP/IP Illustrated vol. 1
is also recomended. And don't forget Richard's book "The Tao of
Network Security Monitoring: Beyond Intrusion Detection". You have
some links to sample chapters etc. at
http://www.taosecurity.com/books.html

Good luck!

/Michael Boman


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