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RE: Rules Question


From: "Roy Kidder" <rkidder () safelite net>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:05:38 -0500

So even using the -o flag, the preprocessors are applied first (before my
'pass' rules)? 

There are a few reasons I'd like to simply ignore traffic before anything
else is applied, including

* internal IPs are masqueraded into a range of external IPs and are
generating port scan alerts. I'd like to ignore the 'legit' traffic
(80,443,21,etc) while not ignoring the potentially bad traffic
(135,137-139,445, IRC bots on 1337).

* on my internal network, my backup server uses RPC pretty heavily, but I
don't want to ignore anything coming from or going to it.

And so on...

If I did all this using a BPF, it would get cumbersome quickly. That's why
I'm searching for an alternative.

Thanks,
Roy



-----Original Message-----
From: snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net 
[mailto:snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net] On Behalf Of 
Jeff Dell
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 3:53 PM
To: 'Roy Kidder'; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: RE: [Snort-users] Rules Question

These rules will not stop the preprocessors, what you want to 
do is add
options in the portscan preprocessor to ignore from certain 
hosts. To remove
certain hosts all together without worrying about any of 
these pass rules,
just add a (Berkeley packet filter)bpf to the end of the 
command to start
Snort.

Example:
Snort -d -A fast -c snort.conf not (src host 192.168.1.5 and 
dst port 80)


Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Kidder [mailto:rkidder () safelite net] 
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 3:41 PM
To: 'Jeff Dell'; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: RE: [Snort-users] Rules Question

Even when using the -o flag, I still get alerts on many 
things. For example,

pass udp 192.168.1.33 any -> any 161

still generates alerts for 'SNMP request udp'

and neither sfscan nor a rules like:

pass ip  192.168.1.5/32 any -> any 80
pass tcp 192.168.1.5/32 any -> any 80

stop the '(portscan) Open Port' alerts for regular web browsing.

Anyone have any suggestions?


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Dell [mailto:jdell () activeworx com] 
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 9:04 AM
To: 'Roy Kidder'; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: RE: [Snort-users] Rules Question

Check your rules order. By default it is alert -> pass -> log 
-> etc...

Try adding the flag -o to your command line options when 
starting snort.

Cheers,
Jeff 

-----Original Message-----
From: snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net 
[mailto:snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net] On Behalf Of 
Roy Kidder
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 8:26 AM
To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: [Snort-users] Rules Question

I'm trying to write what I expected to be a simple set rules, 
but it's not
working for me. They look like this:

pass udp any any <> 10.0.0.10 53
pass udp any any <> 192.168.1.5 53
alert udp any any <> any 53 (msg: "DNS Query";)

What I expected was to alert on any DNS queries except those 
to 10.0.0.10 or
to 192.168.1.5. Instead, I'm seeing alerts on everything 
including those two
hosts. 

Any pointers on what I did wrong?

Thanks in advance,
Roy

 
Roy Kidder
Network Engineer
Safelite Glass Corp.




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