[Oisf-users] Can I block DDos attack via Suricata-IDS?

[Jason Long]

Can anyone answer my question? As I sad, I use Suricata-IDS on Windows and config part not have any part like that. 

    On Sunday, February 5, 2017 1:44 AM, Peter Manev <petermanev at gmail.com> wrote:
 

 

> On 4 Feb 2017, at 19:12, Cooper F. Nelson <cnelson at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/3/2017 7:03 AM, Peter Manev wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:28 PM, Cooper F. Nelson <cnelson at ucsd.edu> wrote:
>>> I was using the automatic feature in the .yaml.  I just explicitly
>>> defined it in the rules as well.
>> 
>> Do you see any diff/improvement that way?
> 
> I'm measuring performance as % packet drops over 24hs.  Did not see any
> clear difference.
> 
>>> Btw, I posted about this earlier, but I'm basically doing a 'prefilter'
>>> for doing file extraction by magic number by building a custom magic.mgc
>>> file.  If you only build in the magic numbers you are interested in
>>> matching on it vastly improves performance (when using the filemagic
>>> keyword).
>> 
>> Yes that is a cool trick. Did you see perf hit across the whole system
>> or just a subset of CPU(s)?
> 
> Whole system.  Suri is using one filemagic thread per detect thread.
> Matching magic numbers with hyperscan would be way better, but that's a
> tall order I think!
> 

Would be a good FR discussion on redmine :)


> -- 
> Cooper Nelson
> Network Security Analyst
> UCSD ITS Security Team
> cnelson at ucsd.edu x41042
> 

   
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