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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:39:17 -0500 (EST)
From:      "H. Wade Minter" <minter@lunenburg.org>
To:        Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Getting more information from ipfw logs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.32.0102131238170.70172-100000@ashburn.skiltech.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102131128580.92630-100000@cody.jharris.com>

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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 <nick@rogness.net>
> - Keep on routing in a Free World...
>   "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!"
>



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