Help with rate_filter

[Simon Blixt <blixten_496 () hotmail com>]

Still stuck with rate_filter. Please read the post under.

From: blixten_496 () hotmail com
To: akirk () sourcefire com; jesler () sourcefire com; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 12:46:25 +0000
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] How to decide/find gen-id? [new question, rate_filter]





Hi,

Thanks for clearing it out for me! I have a new question. I've created a rule (just to learn about how to create rules 
in Snort) to drop packets from a possible DDoS-attack:
drop tcp any any -> 10.10.10.1 80 (msg:"testing"; flow:established,to_server; detection_filter:track by_src, count 100, 
seconds 5; sid:1000001;)

It works great, but after the attacker have done the attack, and failed, I still want to block him from accessing my 
site. Therefore I'm testing to make a rate_filter:
rate_filter gen_id 1, sig_id 1000001, track by_src, count 1, seconds 1, new_action drop, timeout 999999
 
It doesn't work. The attacker can still access the site, the timeout is not trigging(the whole rate_filter isn't 
triggering?). 
I'm not sure if I understand count and seconds correctly. I assume count is how many times the rule(sid 1000001) need 
to trigger in x seconds, before my rate_filter gets activated?
What have I missed?

Thank you in advance

Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 08:31:43 -0400
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] How to decide/find gen-id?
From: akirk () sourcefire com
To: blixten_496 () hotmail com
CC: snort-users () lists sourceforge net

The GID (generator ID) isn't something you should really be specifying manually. Text rules (as in *.rules within the 
standard rules directory) are all GID 1; shared object rules are GID 3; and preprocessor rules are assigned appropriate 
GIDs based upon the preprocessor creating them. 


On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Simon Blixt <blixten_496 () hotmail com> wrote:





Hi,
I'm setting up an rate_filter for my rule. But I'm stuck in choosing the gen-id.
Is it so simple that all *.rules have the gen-id 1? Or should I look in gen-msg.map for a gen-id to choose?
How do I know which to choose in gen-msg.map if that's the situation?


Thanks,
Blixten
                                          

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