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Re: Snort rules maximum rules per file
From: Hussein Bahaidarah <husseinb () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:04:58 +0300
Hello, I have found after extensive testing that only 131008 rules only fires alert and action. Any rule after that will not take any action. On Jun 25, 2011, at 8:39 PM, Hussein Bahaidarah wrote: Hello, Is there a limit on the number of rules support by snort in general? and on per file basis? I have customized a file with 942099 rules and it took about 15 minutes to start snort; but no alerts or actions wer fired. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Initializing rule chains... 942099 Snort rules read 942099 detection rules 0 decoder rules 0 preprocessor rules 942099 Option Chains linked into 1 Chain Headers 0 Dynamic rules +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +-------------------[Rule Port Counts]--------------------------------------- | tcp udp icmp ip | src 0 0 0 0 | dst 942099 0 0 0 | any 0 0 0 0 | nc 0 0 0 0 | s+d 0 0 0 0 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Regards, Hussein Bahaidara
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