discuss: Snort on Red Hat Linux HOWTO?
Subject:
RE: Snort on Red Hat Linux HOWTO?
From:
"Abe L. Getchell" ####@####.####
Date:
18 Dec 2001 06:10:26 -0000
Message-Id: <001301c1878a$d7e302e0$9b00a8c0@iguana>
Hi Vivek!
Snort is an intrusion detection system/network protocol analyzer
originally developed by Martin Roesch @ SourceFire
(http://www.sourcefire.com/). Today, it's considered to be on the
cutting edge of intrusion detection technology and widely deployed in
commercial and government organizations. Checkout http://www.snort.org/
for more info.
As to including sections for other distributions, I'm all for it, but I
believe it would best to start with the Red Hat focus as it's what I
most commonly see Snort being deployed on when Linux is the OS of
choice; you know, target the largest audience first. Why don't we plan
on throwing something in there for Debian and a couple of other dists in
the first revision after the initial (hopeful) document posting?
Barring anything major, I'll hopefully have this hammered out within a
week or so.
Thanks,
Abe
--
Abe L. Getchell
Security Engineer
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vivek Venugopalan ####@####.####
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 12:32 AM
> To: ####@####.####
> Subject: RE: Snort on Red Hat Linux HOWTO?
>
>
> Hi
> Pardon by ignorance but what exactly is snort? Also if you
> can include sections for other distributions also it would
> help. I run debian...
>
> Vivek
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Abe L. Getchell ####@####.####
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:11 AM
> > To: ####@####.####
> > Subject: Snort on Red Hat Linux HOWTO?
> >
> >
> > Good evening!
> >
> > Surprisingly, after searching the documentation available, I'm not
> > seeing anything detailing the setup and configuration of Snort on
> > Linux. This seems to be a topic which could most definitely
> use some
> > coverage considering how popular Snort has become in the
> past couple
> > of years, because Linux has become platform of choice for a large
> > majority of people running it, and due to the number of basic setup
> > and configuration questions being asked on the Snort user and devel
> > mailing lists. As the title mentions, I would like to gear this
> > document towards Red Hat Linux as it's what the majority of
> the folks
> > running Linux run it on (from what I gather), and there are some
> > idiosyncrasies with the Red Hat underpinnings that could addressed
> > before the questions are asked elsewhere... again. I would gladly
> > tackle this document if the community here thinks it's a worthwhile
> > task.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Abe
> >
> > --
> > Abe L. Getchell
> > Security Engineer
> > ####@####.####
> >
> >
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