Re: Snort not alerting although tcpdump shows packet

["Al Lewis (allewi)" <allewi () cisco com>]

See the manual on IDS mode: http://manual.snort.org/node6.html

Albert Lewis
QA Software Engineer
SOURCEfire, Inc. now part of Cisco
9780 Patuxent Woods Drive
Columbia, MD 21046
Phone: (office) 443.430.7112
Email: allewi () cisco com

From: Kumarswamy H N (kumhn)
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 8:06 AM
To: Gaurav Srivastava; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort not alerting although tcpdump shows packet

Snort will only alert if your traffic  matches any of the snort rules with action set to alert. So you must provide a 
configuration file which includes an appropriate rule to alert for your traffic.  To start with, you can add a simple 
rule to snort.conf that matches your traffic or enable appropriate rule protocol-icmp.rules .



Regards,
Kumar

From: Gaurav Srivastava [mailto:gaurav.srivastava7 () gmail com]
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 5:16 PM
To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net<mailto:snort-users () lists sourceforge net>
Subject: [Snort-users] Snort not alerting although tcpdump shows packet

Dear all,

I have a strange issue. I am running snort to observe traffic mirrored from another VM.
But Snort is not alerting. To verify whether the packets are received or not I did a tcpdump using following command

sudo tcpdump -w icmp.pcap -i eth0 icmp

And when I read the file using snort using below command:

snort -r icmp.pcap

It displays the ICMP packet logs. But the alert was not generated when snort was running.

Please suggest. I am stuck here.


Thanks and Regards,
Gaurav

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