Re: Snort as Firewall (WinXP)

[Tony Barry <tony () no-bull co nz>]

Good decision re Linux and its not so difficult now. I would suggest
Fedora (I'm using Core 3) as it is an SELinux enabled distro and fairly
bleeding edge. Really informative install guides are at
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Stanton_Finley

and

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_fedora_core_3

It has software RAID. If you would like to use this it's very easy to
set up during installation.
There is a vast amount of help available on line.

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/#Linux%20Main

is an excellent starting point.

Good luck


On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 16:45 +0530, Neil wrote:
> Yeah, well, in all my readings and largely from the mail on this list,
> I've come to the conclusion that Snort definitly won't give me
> iptable-functionality on a windows box.
>
> My solution is one I should've done a while ago: start using linux.  Of
> course, thats much harder than it sounds, but we'll see how it turns out.
>
> Thanks to the list for all the help.
>
> Cheers,
> Neil
>
> On 1/26/2006 3:02 AM, coder wrote:
> > I should probably add that the only two ways I know of making snort into an
> > IPS;
> > is by either using snort-inline, which would require IPTables (and this is a
> > windows question) or
> > using "flex response" (not sure if this comes with the windows version of
> > snort), the downfall of flex response
> > is that is just sends an RST packet to break the connection (this however
> > does not stop the attacker from re-connecting)
> > also, you would have to write your own rules such as:
> >
> > alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HTTP_SERVERS 80 (msg:"WEB-IIS CodeRed v2
> > root.exe access"; flags: A+; uricontent:"scripts/root.exe?";
> > nocase;resp:rst_snd;)
> >
> > (you can see the rst_snd at the end)
> >
> > but, as "shrek-m" and I (in my earlier email) said, snort cannot really be
> > used as a firewall.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Davie
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: <shrek-m () gmx de>
> > To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:17 PM
> > Subject: Re: Snort as Firewall (WinXP)
> >
> >
> > > Neil wrote:
> > >
> > > > > From what I've read, a couple people have tried, but most people were of
> > > > the opinion to use Snort as an IDS, and have a separate firewall.
> > > bingo.
> > >
> > > > If anyone has done it, do you recommend it? Why/why not?
> > > > For those who are against using it as a firewall, again, why?
> > > "snort"  iirc is a ids/ips  and  no firewall
> > > http://www.snort.org/
> > >
> > > eg.  "iptables"  iirc is a firewall  and no ids/ips
> > > http://iptables.org/
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > shrek-m
>
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