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      tsolrm
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      What sort of things would cause snort to throw an alert?

      I am trying to test its functionality so I need a few test cases that would prove that it works.

      Thank you

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        bmeeks
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        @tsolrm:

        What sort of things would cause snort to throw an alert?

        I am trying to test its functionality so I need a few test cases that would prove that it works.

        Thank you

        Enable the Emerging Threats scan rules category, then scan the firewall (on the interface where Snort is running) from a host running nmap.  That should generate some alerts for MySQL probes, VNC probes and a handful of others.

        Bill

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