Re: Multiple network segment monitor with Snort

["Keith W. McCammon" <keith-list () mccammon org>]

> Can I use the same physical machine (with as many ethernet cards as 
> sensors I want to deploy) and use various and independent snort 
> processes? I neither know if only one Snort process can control 
> different network cards at the same time. And yes, I know that I can hog 
> the sensor, but the networks are going to have little traffic (at least 
> right now!).

Yep, no problem.  I run between 2-4 per FreeBSD-based sensor.  As long 
as you keep up on RAM you're cool.


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