getting Too_Long_To_Compile_Filter notice

Jason Haar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.detection.bro
Message-ID <CAFChrg+wMSsCcbfAJdwb4Kr_JvDSSF6LCkWS2e0r2+UWp4oX_w@mail.gmail.com>
Hi there

We have a small army of scanners that I want to exclude from zeek, so I
used the BPF filter option. Unfortunately, it's 166 IP addresses and is
triggering this "Too_Long_To_Compile_Filter" warning.

The documentation states "compensation measures may be taken by the
framework to reduce the filter size" - does that mean the filter is being
shortened? Ironically I'm mainly using the filter to remove stuff that zeek
shouldn't bother with - ie I'm removing load - which apparently is in
itself overloading zeek?

Are there other ways of  removing noisy and/or masses of uninteresting
traffic - without needing to lean on our network team to start altering
SPAN traffic flows/etc?

Thanks!

-- 
Cheers

Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +1 408 481 8171
PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1

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