Re: snort thresholding/event_filter broken? Does thresholding work at all in snort?

[Russ Combs <rcombs () sourcefire com>]

Thresholding does work.  Not aware of any bugs.

Can you can provide a pcap and conf to demonstrate the problem?

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Lawrence R. Hughes, Sr. <
lhughes () safemedia com> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> Does thresholding work at all in snort?
> We added the following Global threshold per:
>
> GLOBAL THRESHOLDING COMMAND:
> ----------------------------
>
> The global threshold options are the same as the standard threshold options
> with the exception of the 'sig_id' field.  The sig_id field must be set to
> 0 to
> indicate this threshold command applies to all sig_id values with the
> specified
> gen_id. To apply the same threshold to all gen_id's at the same time, and
> with
> just one command specify a value of gen_id=0.
>
>  We added the following Global threshold to the threshold.conf file:
>
>
> event_filter gen_id 122, sig_id 0, type limit, track by_src, count 1,
> seconds 3600
>
> When snort loads, you see the above event_filter is active, but does not
> limit the alerts to 1 every 3600 seconds?
>
> Thanks,
> Larry
>
>
>
>
>
>
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