Re: Snort IPS Functionality

[Michael Ray <miker () cotse com>]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:23:49 +0200, you wrote:

> Hello all,
>
>            I'm interested in using snort on a FreeBSD machine as an IPS.
> I've read the docs on the website and as far as I can see the only available
> "IPS" functionality exists on Linux, using iptables. Does this actually just
> drop the questionable packet - or is it generating firewall rules? And does
> any of the IPS functionality work on FreeBSD at all? There was a project a
> while ago called Hogwash, which would do exactly what I'm interested in -
> but that seems long dead.

Take a look at snortsam.

http://www.snortsam.net/

Mike


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