Re: Beginner Rule Problem

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

On Oct 10, 2013, at 9:56 PM, wkitty42 () windstream net wrote:
> On Thursday, October 10, 2013 2:08 PM, Kodiak80 <kodiak80 () gmail com> wrote: 
> > I finally got my issue resolved with help over on the pfSense forums.  In case 
> > anyone else runs into a similar problem, I was missing a classification in my 
> > rule.  Once I added a 'classtype: inappropriate-content', the rule worked as 
> > expected.  Not sure if that is a general Snort requirement, or unique to the 
> > pfSense Snort install.  Thanks to those offering help. 
>
> snort does not complain about basic rules that do not include such things as SID, MSG and apparently classtype... 
> there may be others...
>
> NOTE to snort development team: please cause snort to error on rules that do not conform to basics and report exactly 
> why the rule is being complained about... :)

It'll error on SID.  Classtype isn’t required, but apparently in pfsense it is.  MSG isn’t required, I’ll have a 
discussion about if we should make it required.

--
Joel Esler
Senior Research Engineer, VRT
OpenSource Community Manager
AEGIS Intelligence Lead

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