Re: [Snort-users] Excluding a single host from a rule

Event suppressions is what your looking for.  Something like:

suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 123456, track by_src, ip 10.10.10.10
or
for your entire network cidr by src
suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 123456, track by_src, ip 10.10.10.0/24

Here is a link to the snort doc's on the subject:
http://www.snort.org/docs/snort_htmanuals/htmanual_280/node339.html


--jeremy

On Nov 15, 2007 5:09 AM, Roman Daszczyszak <romandas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm relatively new to using Snort, yet I've read through the rules
> section in the manual and tried searching the Sourcefire forums and
> can't seem to find an answer to this.
>
> How can I exclude a single host on my network from an alert rule?
>
> Specifically, I have a fileserver that hosts Windows shares for our
> users' home directory and profiles.  The users connect from all across
> our enterprise and when they do, Windows XP seems to handle the
> transaction first by pinging the fileserver, then establishing the
> connection via TCP/NetBIOS.  However, with the quantity of users, each
> of those ICMP pings prior to the real connection are collectively
> causing the ICMP NMAP rule to fire.
>
> I would like to exclude the fileserver from alerting when the NMAP
> rule fires, yet keep the rule active for the rest of the network.  How
> can I do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Roman
>
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