snort on router - risks?

[Marcus Schopen <lists () localguru de>]

Hi,

on my DSL-router (masqurading) at home I'd like to install snort to see 
who attacks me from the internet side. I know that one should install 
snort on a seperate hosts before and behind the firewall to get the best 
results, but this is just my little "private-home-net" and I don't want 
to set up further linuxboxes (no money, to space, too loud ...).

So my question: what are the risks to set up snort on the gateway-router 
instead of using a seperate snort host? Is that insecure? And why?

Thanks
Marcus

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