Re: Snort and ADSL

["Gaddis, Jeremy L." <jeremy () linuxwiz net>]

Mike Gilligan wrote:
> I have a Netscreen 5GT ADSL FW at my home with two interfaces - inside 
> and outside. I do have a basic set of IDS sigs on the Netscreen but I 
> would like to set up a Snort sensor outside the Firewall to look at 
> unblocked alerts. However, I only have an RJ11 telephone cable to my 
> ADSL port on the Netscreen and no where to plug in a Snort sensor. I 
> could plug it in on the inside but I miss a lot of the traffic already 
> dropped. I know that some SOHO Firewalls like the Linksys ones let you 
> run Snort on the box itself but this isn't an option for me. Could 
> anyone suggest a feasible solution?

I've seen people do similar things before, but I can never understand 
why.  Why do you care about everything that's being blocked?  I have 
enough to worry about watching the IDS for things that *DO* make it 
inside the firewall, without worrying about all the crud that gets dropped.

-j

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Jeremy L. Gaddis
GCWN, MCP, Linux+, Network+
http://www.jeremygaddis.com/

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