Re: [Snort-users] Question on port lists and negation

I believe he is referring to snort 2.8 which does support port lists.

On 10/8/07, Matt Kettler <mkettler@evi-inc.com> wrote:
> Richard Bejtlich wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > As I mentioned to roesch and WuTang in IRC, I am playing with port
> > lists and negation.
> >
> > Say I create this snort.conf:
> >
> > portvar MY_HTTP_PORTS [80,81,82,83,88,8000,8008,8080]
> > alert tcp any any -> any !$MY_HTTP_PORTS (msg:"Example Not"; sid:4;)
>
> port specs cannot be comma-delimited lists like that, IIRC.
>
> For ports you can specify:
>         a port [80]
>         a continuous range of ports [1:1023]
>         or a negation of either of the above.
>
> But you cannot do things like [80,88]. That syntax only works for IP 
> addresses.
>
> See also, the docs on port numbers in rules:
>
> http://www.snort.org/docs/snort_htmanuals/htmanual_2615/node153.html


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