Re: Problems with Policy-Based Rules file

["Alex Butcher, ISC/ISYS" <Alex.Butcher () bristol ac uk>]

--On 03 November 2004 14:16 -0500 "Kaplan, Andrew H." 
<AHKAPLAN () PARTNERS ORG> wrote:

> 1. Two servers with the addresses of 192.168.2.2 and 192.168.2.3 are
> sending requests via port 1985 to the 226.0.0.2:1985 multicast address
> via UDP. I added  a section to the file that calls for a pass of said
> traffic from both servers via TCP and UDP. Even though I added it to the
> file, I am still getting  a large amount of alerts from both machines.

[snip]

> The version of Snort that is being run is version 2.1.3, and the syntax
> used to run the program is /usr/sbin/snort -o -u snort -g snort -d -D -c
> /etc/snort/snort.conf -i eth0

That would appear to indicate that the '-o' ("pass first") option isn't 
working. Use ps to verify that Snort is *really* running with the -o option.

Best Regards,
Alex.
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