Re: Snort BPF.filter doesn't work

[waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net>]

On 7/10/2014 2:13 PM, Robert Millott wrote:
> All
>     Finally figured it out.  Thanx Jeremy for leading me in the right direction.
> The traffic I was looking at was GRE encapsulated, so while the bpf filters were
> ignoring packets based on src and dst ip address, the snort rules were seeing
> the encapsulated data, which contained the 192.168.1.1 address snort was looking
> for , and that's why snort alerts were firing despite my telling it to drop
> those addresses.

so... ummm... what was the solution so that others running into the same problem 
might find it instead of posting about the same problem in the future? ;)

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