userguide: update exception policy behaviors table

Some exception policies can only be applied to the triggering packet or
only make sense considering the whole flow. Highlight such cases in the
table showing each exception policy.

Related to
Bug #5825
pull/9021/head
Juliana Fajardini 2 years ago committed by Victor Julien
parent 0c2922f02e
commit c0db25d055

@ -67,28 +67,26 @@ Exception policies are implemented for:
- Expected behavior
* - stream.memcap
- memcap-policy
- If a stream memcap limit is reached, call the memcap policy on the packet
and flow.
- If a stream memcap limit is reached, apply the memcap policy to the packet and/or
flow.
* - stream.midstream
- midstream-policy
- If a session is picked up midstream, call the memcap policy on the packet
and flow.
- If a session is picked up midstream, apply the midstream policy to the flow.
* - stream.reassembly.memcap
- memcap-policy
- If stream reassembly reaches memcap limit, call the memcap policy on the
packet and flow.
- If stream reassembly reaches memcap limit, apply memcap policy to the
packet and/or flow.
* - flow.memcap
- memcap-policy
- Apply policy when the memcap limit for flows is reached and no flow could
be freed up. Apply policy to the packet.
be freed up. **Policy can only be applied to the packet.**
* - defrag.memcap
- memcap-policy
- Apply policy when the memcap limit for defrag is reached and no tracker
could be picked up. Apply policy to the packet.
could be picked up. **Policy can only be applied to the packet.**
* - app-layer
- error-policy
- Apply policy if a parser reaches an error state. Apply policy to the
packet and flow.
- Apply policy if a parser reaches an error state. Policy can be applied to packet and/or flow.
To change any of these, go to the specific section in the suricata.yaml file
(for more configuration details, check the :doc:`suricata.yaml's<suricata-yaml>`

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