Re: [SLUG] Snort!

From: Brian Coyle (brian@linuxwidows.com)
Date: Sun Jul 28 2002 - 11:39:40 EDT


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On Sunday 28 July 2002 09:21, Russell Hires wrote:
> Now, the fun part...
>
> > var HOME_NET $eth0_ADDRESS
> >
> > for whichever interface is the external interface on your firewall, or:
> >
> > var HOME_NET [192.168.1.0/24]
> >
> > where the CIDR is the address range of the network that you consider
> > "yours".
>
> I'm confused by these instructions. For me, my home network is eth1 (ip =
> 192.168.1.2), and the rest of the internet is on ppp0 (aka external
> interface), which is what I get assigned because of my dsl connection (ip =
> 4.62.115.xx). So here I want to set the eth1 address, or the ppp0 address?
>

You can also do something like this:

        var HOME_NET [192.168.1.0/24,$ppp0_ADDRESS]

But then you need to restart snort everytime to bring up ppp0.

HTH!

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