Re: Help! Newbie Needs Help

[wkitty42 () windstream net]

On 05/17/2017 11:09 PM, Dionne Queen wrote:
> I installed Snort and used the following to create alert:
> c:\Snort\bin> snort -i 2 -c c:\Snort\etc\snort.conf - A console
>
>  However, I keep getting the above Error message displaying no such file or directory - log/snort.log.1495074784
> This is what is on my C: Drive -

hunh?? above error??? there's not even one below...

> I am using the following alert:
> alert icmp any any -> any any (msg: "icmp testing rule"; sid: 1000001;)
> Snort won't allow any alerts due to the Error Message. Please Help.
> I am a "newbie".

but i believe you might be better served by using a more rounded testing suit of 
rules instead of shoving everything into the ICMP protocol...

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