RE: Beginner w/ IDS and snort

[Steve Halligan <agent33 () geeksquad com>]

  That
> said, I'm very much open to building this IDS on the "ideal 
> platform" and
> doing whatever research and testing is required to make it 
> successful.  I'm
> comfortable with cli, but regardless of platform, I'd like to have a
> front-end that provides meaningful "quick-glance" 
> information, and a way to
> sort through all the data.

I hate to admit it, but I am mostly a windows guy too.  That said, my snort
build out is:
SNORT+MYSQL+APACHE+PHP+ACID+OpenBSD
Snort windows development generally lags a little bit behind the *nix
version.  The whole set-up is, IMHO,
cleaner and easier to get your hands around in the *nix environment.  Plus,
learning *nix is a great thing to do in general.  Thanks to it I know much
much more than I did about C, TCP/IP, PERL, PHP just to name a few things.

BTW, I picked OpenBSD over linux because I needed it to be secure, and
Snort/Acid is all it does.

-Steve 

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