From owner-freebsd-security Tue Feb 13 9:39:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ashburn.skiltech.com (ashburn.skiltech.com [216.235.79.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A13F37B491 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:39:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from minter@localhost) by ashburn.skiltech.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1DHdI775962; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:39:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from minter) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:39:17 -0500 (EST) From: "H. Wade Minter" X-X-Sender: To: Nick Rogness Cc: Subject: Re: Getting more information from ipfw logs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Does snort work well with ipfw. Maybe I'm thinking of it wrong, but wouldn't I have to let the traffic into the firewall so snort could deal with it? Thanks, Wade On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Nick Rogness wrote: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, H. Wade Minter wrote: > > > I'm running a ipfw firewall on 4.2-STABLE. I've got my rules set up > > fine, and everything seems to be going well. However, I'd like to ge > > more logged information than just the time, source IP:port, and dest > > IP:port. Can ipfw do this, or is there an addon I need to use to get > > things like packet content and whatnot logged? > > > > You are looking for an IDS (Intrusion Detection System) sotware > package that will actually examine the contents of packets. A > great one already exists in the ports, it's called snort. > > For more information on snort's capabilities, see > http://www.snort.org. > > Nick Rogness > - Keep on routing in a Free World... > "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message