Re: [Snort-users] Supressing alerts.

These are actually placed into the snort.conf file?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Kettler" <mkettler@evi-inc.com>
To: <chubeshoi@chubes.com>; <snort-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Supressing alerts.


> At 09:14 AM 2/28/2005, chubeshoi@chubes.com wrote:
>
> > Are generating too many alerts.  I have attempted to suppress these alerts 
> > in my snort.conf file like the following:
> > suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 27:
> > suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 19:
> > suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 4:
> >
> > But those alerts keep on flooding my SQL database.  Am I using the correct 
> > signature ID numbers?  I don't know what else to try.
>
> Well, you are close, but you wrong gen_id's.. generator 1 is the rules, 
> and no preprocessor generated alerts will match.
>
>
> [snort] (portscan) Open Port   unclassified
> [snort] (portscan) UDP Portsweep   unclassified
>
> sfportscan is generator 122 so you need to suppress gen_id 122 with sig_id 
> 27 and 19.
>
> [snort] (http_inspect) BARE BYTE UNICODE ENCODING
>
> http_inspect is generator 119 so you need to suppress gen_id 119 sig_id 4
>
> Try these instead:
>
> suppress gen_id 122, sig_id 27:
> suppress gen_id 122, sig_id 19:
> suppress gen_id 119, sig_id 4:
>
>
>
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