Re: Just starting with snort on XP

["Patrick S. Harper" <lists () internetsecurityguru com>]

You need to install Winpcap on the system.  It can be found
http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/winpcap/

There is wintel documentation on the snort.org site as well as at
http://www.silicondefense.com/support/windows/documentation.php


On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 20:11, Barbara Pease wrote:
> I downloaded snort-1_9_1.exe archive from snort.org and unbundled it.  A
> directory  C:\Snort
> was created with several subdirectories: bin, etc, log, contrib, rules
> and doc and another executable called Uninstall.exe, suggesting its
> function.  ;-) I found snort.exe in the bin directory with
> LibnetNT.dll.  I ran the command prompt and cd C:\Snort then typed
> .\bin\snort.exe -v just to get started as described in the user
> documentation.  Running snort.exe always
> consistently produces an "Unable to Locate Component" error window
> stating that this application has failed to start because wpcap.dll was
> not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
> Re-installing it did not make any difference. There is no such dll as
> wpcap.dll on my system.  Does this dll come with snort or does it come
> with something I need to run snort?  I am more familiar with Unix than
> Windows; unfortunately I must install snort on an XP laptop for my
> purposes.  I am also new to snort.
>
> Best regards,
> Barbara
>
>
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