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Re: Taking out the traffic on ports 22 and 443 suggestive?
From: Erek Adams <erek () snort org>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:50:48 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Edin Dizdarevic wrote:
I was wondering if it would make sense to relief Snort by taking out the ports 22 and 443 using the BPF filters. HTTP(S) packets are usually quite big and looking inside of them is quite senseless for obvious reasons. With SSH stream4 is additionally burdened since those packets are usually quite small and are filling up it's memory waiting to be reassembled. Senseless too, IMHO...
Yep. Very, very true. Losing those ports could be a really good thing, esp. if your network has large amounts of traffic on those ports.
Of course scans won't be seen, but is that really important since a simple connect scan will find those ports open?
*shrug* You can tweak the BPF filters in quite a few ways. You could look for just PUS and ACK packets on one of those ports. That would cut down the amount of data you had to look at, but still having some ability to deal with scans. Cheers! ----- Erek Adams "When things get weird, the weird turn pro." H.S. Thompson ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
Current thread:
- Taking out the traffic on ports 22 and 443 suggestive? Edin Dizdarevic (Apr 23)
- Re: Taking out the traffic on ports 22 and 443 suggestive? Erek Adams (Apr 23)
- Re: Taking out the traffic on ports 22 and 443 suggestive? Alberto Gonzalez (Apr 23)
- Re: Taking out the traffic on ports 22 and 443 suggestive? Edin Dizdarevic (Apr 23)
- Re: Taking out the traffic on ports 22 and 443 suggestive? Brian (Apr 24)
- Re: Taking out the traffic on ports 22 and 443 suggestive? Brian (Apr 24)