Re: Compiling snort for CheckPoint Firewall-1 support

[Frank Knobbe <frank () knobbe us>]

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 17:19 +0200, carlopmart wrote:
>   i would like to test snort 2.4.4 release with CheckPoint fw-1
> (NGR55 
> and NGX) and in-line (snort-inline.sf.net) support. I have used
> snortsam 
> last months, but I need a real IPS now thath sends commands to my 
> firewalls and blocks traffic. How can I compile snort for fw1
> support???

Uhm... that *IS* what Snortsam does. It sends commands to your firewall
to block traffic.


On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 14:29 -0400, Paul Melson wrote: 
> You can't build Snort with FW-1 specific support like you can with
> RealSecure or other commercial products that have OPSEC(tm) support.

Snortsam provides that OPSEC support, but not straight from Snort. It is
interfaced by Snortsam (Snort->Snortsam->FW-1).


Regards,
Frank

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compared to a sewer. A big, fat pipe with a bunch of crap sloshing
against your ports.

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