Re: Snort 2.8.0.1 and No TCP Alerts.

Andrea Barisani <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ids
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 04:01:17PM +0100, Stefano Zanero wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
>> I setup Snort 2.8.0.1 on debian 4.0.  Everything seems fine except it
>> doesn't alerts any TCP alerts.     It sees all icmp traffics and logs
>> all alerts but none of TCP alerts.  I used Idswakeup to test these
>> rules and none of alerts are firing. In snort forum, there was one
>> thread related to this type of trouble with 2.6 version.  I tested
>> with -k none options and it didn't help me out.
>
> IDSWakeup is stateless. Snort 2.8 probably ignores the out-of-state
> packets it is producing.
>
> Stefano
>

Ftester on the other hand is stateful:

http://dev.inversepath.com/trac/ftester

but it's kinda old-fashioned now, it's waiting for a decent rewrite. The
concept is still valid though.

Cheers

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