RE: SUMMARY, CyberKit 2.2 Ping, its driven me Nuts..

["Chris N" <chris.northrop () po state ct us>]

Simple, just set the source to $HOMENET. Since I don't expect a lot of
internal machines to become infected, thresholding wouldn't help me out to
much. If things change I could always play around with thresholding at later
time.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brice B [mailto:nesta () iceburg net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 6:21 PM
To: chris.northrop () po state ct us; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] SUMMARY, CyberKit 2.2 Ping, its driven me
Nuts..


Chris,

  would you mind telling us how you set it to alert only internal
Cyberkit/Nachi ping attempts? Did you use thresholding?

Regards,

  Brice Burgess

Chris N wrote:

> Fellowship of the Snort,
>
> I guess I should have clarified that all the "CyberKit 2.2 Ping" alerts
were
> ingress only.
>
> Some of you guys suggested just removing the alert. Yes that would stop the
> chaos, but I didn't want to blind myself. Although, I do have to admit I
was
> leaning this way.
>
> With the advise from a few others I decided to keep the rule, but with a
> slight modification to alert me on egress only. I am only really concerned
> about systems within my network. Yes, keeping track of this traffic from
the
> outside would be a good idea, but in my environment its not feasible.
> Someday, when I'm questioned about the necessity of an IDS, I will switch
> this alert and a few others back to saturate, so as to subdue the
> misinformed.
>
> Thank you for your time
> Chris N.




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