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!" > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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