Re: Snort and network taps

[Chris Green <cmg () sourcefire com>]

counter.spy () gmx de writes:

> Wouldn't I lose the stateful inspection capability of snort when
> using the third method?

Yes.0

>  Each snort process only sees one direction of each connection, so
> it cannot know if a connection has been properly established or not.
> It seems to me that this is a problem that most NIDS should
> encounter when running on tap ports, right?

Yup.

> What would you recommend me to do, in order not to loose stateful
> analysis capabilities?

One of your other solutions or tap off a hub
-- 
Chris Green <cmg () sourcefire com>
Fame may be fleeting but obscurity is forever.

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