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[SNORT] Best rule categories to enable/disable
From: bcg at struxural.com (Ben Greenfield)
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:18:24 -0400
It certainly sounds like you are running snort inline. I recommend tuning the snort.conf file to be a very accurate representation of the network snort is seeing traffic for. Are you running snort on your internal network or on your WAN connection? It sounds like you are running snort on your WAN connection. I would only run rule categories that relate to services you are actually running - if you don't have any HTTP servers accepting connections where Snort can see them, you don't need to run the HTTP rules, etc. On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Will Metcalf <william.metcalf at gmail.com> wrote:
If you are running in passive mode this should not happen. ?If you are running inline then you should run with alert only rules until you can weed out false positives and then convert to drop rules one rule file at a time, or for certian types of events that you know you should never see in your environment. Regards, Will On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Thomas Fischer <tvfischer at gmail.com> wrote:So outside of enabling everything, which I can't seem to do as it is seriously?impairing?my network access by slow load times, pictures not showing up, IM disconnections, gaming issues. Which package rules would you enable or disable to have a safe but optimized snort-ids probe? Cheers -- Thomas Fischer ? ? email: tvfischer at gmail.com tvfischer at free.fr ?twitter.com/FVT ?fvter.wordpress.com ? ? IM: ?gTalk:tvfischer at gmail.com ? ?MSN:tvfischer at hotmail.com Y!:tvfischer_FR ? ? PGP Key: https://keyserver1.pgp.com/vkd/DownloadKey.event?keyid=0x27FBA97646CF2077 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Sent from Crosne, France _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com_______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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