Re: only alerts on incoming traffic.

[Matt Watchinski <mwatchinski () sourcefire com>]

I'm guessing your running snort on the same system you are generating
the outgoing traffic?

If so try running with "-k none"

Cheers,
-matt

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:37 PM, jkv <jkv () unixcluster dk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble getting snort to trigger rules on outgoing
> connections, inbound connections works just fine.
> For debugging this issue i have disabled all my normal rules and made a
> few debug rules:
>
> alert tcp any any -> 90.185.105.45 25 (msg:"DEBUG: SMTP INCOMMING";
> sid:22222222;)
> alert tcp 90.185.105.45 any -> any 25 (msg:"DEBUG: SMTP OUTGOING";
> sid:11111111;)
>
> (90.185.105.45 is my static ip, normally i use HOME_NET for this but
> since i am debugging i have hardcoded the IP in the rules)
>
> With these two rules i get snort alerts if i generate port 25 from a
> remote server to my server - so far so good. But if i from my server
> initiate a port 25 connections to some remote smtp server i dont get any
> snort alerts.
>
> Anyone got any ideas about why this is happening?
>
> Regards,
> jkv
>
>
>
>
>
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