[Oisf-devel] Does suricata have "activates/activated_by" as a rule option?

amit zala impmails67 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 24 19:45:00 UTC 2016


Hi Victor,

Thanks for the prompt reply, xbits solved my problem. :)

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Thanks
Amit

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:23 PM, Victor Julien <lists at inliniac.net> wrote:

> On 24-08-16 18:52, amit zala wrote:
> > Hello Signature-writers/developers,
> >
> > Snort provides activates/activated_by as a post-detection rule_option.
> > You can read more about it here
> > (http://manual-snort-org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/node34.html)
> >
> > Does suricata have this functionality? I tried to search it into
> > suricata user guide, but I was not able to find it.
> >
> > Basically , I want to trigger rule only if other rule has been
> > triggered. I can not use flowbits, because detection is being done on IP
> > protocol.
> >
> > Any help/pointer will be much appreciated.
>
> No, those options are not implemented.
>
> You could perhaps try xbits to set per ip pair or per host bits.
>
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