Re: home_net & external_net question

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

Are you using a snort in inline mode, or is it built into a firewall?


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On Jul 15, 2013, at 5:57 PM, "slava () webii net" <slava () webii net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm not very skilled with snort. But have some understanding of how it
> works.
> So here is my situation:
> We have a snort instance, which protect out internal network.
> HOME_NET is set with a bunch of internal networks.
> EXTERNAL_NET is set as !$HOME_NET
> Today a few sites have been infected with a trojan, and upon it
> activation, all sites from our internal network have been blocked at once.
>
> My question is : Did snort acted correctly by blocking IPs from HOME_NET
> or not ?
> Should snort not block networks listed in HOME_NET no matter what ?
>
>
> Appreciate any help.
> Thank you,
> Slava
>
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