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Re: Snort on Windows starts but doesn't create any alerts
From: "Michael Green" <Michael.Green () gbst com>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 07:19:37 +1000
To discover what interfaces are available on Windows try windump -D that will enumerate the interfaces. Also it will return a numbered list of really long device names, with the -i switch you can just specify the number. Since both snort and windump both use the -i switch you can test it first using windump. i.e. windump -i 1 If you get the traffic you are expecting you are good to go otherwise just try -i 2 etc. Hope this helps Michael From: Max Williams [mailto:Max.Williams () mflow com] Sent: Tuesday, 4 May 2010 11:39 PM To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort on Windows starts but doesn't create any alerts Thanks for the ideas so far but I still cannot get any alerts out of Snort on Windows 2008 R2. "Large pings and nmap scans will not necessarily generate any alerts. nmap may trigger the portscan preprocessor if you have it configured to look for scans. Doesn't look like you're using it." They both do on Linux and I have configured sfportscan too but still no alerts. "To better test, create a simple rule in local.rules, such as: alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET 80 (msg:"Test for web traffic"; sid: 1000001;) Make sure your local.rules file is enabled in your snort.conf, click on a web page and you should have alerts." Tried this too and still no alerts. "Also, Joel is right. You need to specify an interface when starting Snort. I haven't used Snort on Windows for quite some time, but remember a -w switch that was used to determine what Windows interfaces are available. I don't see it in my current build; perhaps others on the list might know more about it. " I've tried specifying either of the interfaces on the command line but no luck. Anyone got any other ideas? I've googled heaps and followed guides on winsnort.com (thanks Michael) I'm guessing that since a simple rule in local.rules (as suggested by Nick) is not triggering an alert then there is some major issue with my config? Snort is definitely seeing all the packets because if I run it with -v it prints loads! From: Nick Moore [mailto:nmoore () sourcefire com] Sent: 30 April 2010 14:46 To: Max Williams Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort on Windows starts but doesn't create any alerts Max, Large pings and nmap scans will not necessarily generate any alerts. nmap may trigger the portscan preprocessor if you have it configured to look for scans. Doesn't look like you're using it. To better test, create a simple rule in local.rules, such as: alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET 80 (msg:"Test for web traffic"; sid: 1000001;) Make sure your local.rules file is enabled in your snort.conf, click on a web page and you should have alerts. Also, Joel is right. You need to specify an interface when starting Snort. I haven't used Snort on Windows for quite some time, but remember a -w switch that was used to determine what Windows interfaces are available. I don't see it in my current build; perhaps others on the list might know more about it. Nick On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Max Williams <Max.Williams () mflow com> wrote: Hi, I am new to snort but have got it running on Linux hosts with no problems. I have an issue with Windows 2008 though. I can start snort but it just doesn't register any alerts: c:\Snort\bin>snort.exe -c c:\Snort\etc\snort.conf -l C:\Snort\log -A console <snip> [ Port Based Pattern Matching Memory ] +-[AC-BNFA Search Info Summary]------------------------------ | Instances : 422 | Patterns : 129205 | Pattern Chars : 1125821 | Num States : 769140 | Num Match States : 116175 | Memory : 18.72Mbytes | Patterns : 4.03M | Match Lists : 5.48M | Transitions : 9.11M +------------------------------------------------- [ Number of null byte prefixed patterns trimmed: 16976 ] --== Initialization Complete ==-- ,,_ -*> Snort! <*- o" )~ Version 2.8.6-ODBC-MySQL-FlexRESP-WIN32 IPv6 GRE (Build 38) '''' By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team: http://www.snort.org/snort/snort-team Copyright (C) 1998-2010 Sourcefire, Inc., et al. Using PCRE version: 7.4 2007-09-21 Using ZLIB version: 1.2.3 Rules Engine: SF_SNORT_DETECTION_ENGINE Version 1.12 <Build 18> Preprocessor Object: SF_SSLPP (IPV6) Version 1.1 <Build 4> Preprocessor Object: SF_SSH (IPV6) Version 1.1 <Build 3> Preprocessor Object: SF_SMTP (IPV6) Version 1.1 <Build 9> Preprocessor Object: SF_SDF (IPV6) Version 1.1 <Build 1> Preprocessor Object: SF_FTPTELNET (IPV6) Version 1.2 <Build 13> Preprocessor Object: SF_DNS (IPV6) Version 1.1 <Build 4> Preprocessor Object: SF_DCERPC (IPV6) Version 1.1 <Build 5> Preprocessor Object: SF_DCERPC2 (IPV6) Version 1.0 <Build 3> Not Using PCAP_FRAMES While its running as above I've tried pinging the host with large packets and various nmap scans which all register alerts on the linux hosts but on windows nothing is printed on the console. I've got the latest rules. Can someone give me some pointers on how to troubleshoot this further? 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