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Re: [Snort-users] Minimal configuration port scanning

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Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Minimal configuration port scanning
From: "Kevin Reiter" <KReiter@insidefsi.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:33:06 -0400
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[mailto:snort-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Josep
Pujadas i Jubany
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 5:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Minimal configuration port scanning


On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:04:11 -0400, Joel Esler wrote 
> There is extensive documentation on the sfportscan preprocessor in the 
docs/ directory that came with your Snort software. 
>  
> Look for README.sfportscan 
>  
> 
>  
> +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ 

> Joel,

> I read it before ...

> Is there any form to test if sfportscan is working?

> It seems like not working for my snort.

> Thanks,

> Josep Pujadas

Portscan your snort sensor and check out the results.  I use a quick nmap scan 
to test this:

# nmap -v -v -sS -P0 -p1-65535 {snort IP}

Also make sure you specify the logfile to use to log the portscans, and make 
sure Snort is able to read/write to the logfile.

HTH
Kevin


Kevin Reiter
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