Re: http_inspect tuning issue

[Sunny James Fugate <sunny.fugate () gmail com>]

It is my understanding that suppression will just eliminate the output alert and any associated packet capture.  You 
won't incur output I/O for the noisy event (which can be substantial), but will still be doing the processing.  Also, 
since it isn't the result of a detection signature you probably can't disable it completely unless you disable the 
preprocessor which produced it. 

-Sunny
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On Jul 3, 2012, at 14:50, waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net> wrote:

> On 7/3/2012 10:16, Joel Esler wrote:
> > Suppress it.  That's the easiest way to get rid of the alert if you find it
> > produces no actionable information for you.
>
> does suppression prevent the processing for that alert from taking place or does 
> it still take place and get dumped to nul?
>
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