RE: RE: Design questions...

["Jeremy Finke" <Jeremy.Finke () MeridianIQ com>]

Exactly... That is the plan..  However, I am wondering what type of box
is going to be needed.  I can get a 2U rack dual PIV Xeon for $3700.
Add in some dual nic cards or quad cards and it becomes a cheaper
solution than buying a bunch of individual servers.  My question is is
that a big enough box?  I am aware of commercial solutions, however,
that costs lots o' money.  I would use old hardware, but this is going
to be sitting in a rack in a data center.  So, the old boxes would be
taking up too much room.

Thanks!

Jeremy

-----Original Message-----
From: larc [mailto:larc () pandora be] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 9:44 AM
To: Randy Bey; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: RE: [Snort-users] Design questions...


> you will incur the wrath of the security gods having a
> machine that bypasses the firewall.

Then you can use network taps, I use multi-homed boxes and every
sniffing interface is running in stealt mode (no ip-address) and is
connected to it's own tap. So there is no way to bypass the firewall.

Stefan D.
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 "Randy Bey" <Randy.Bey () rivernorthsys com> wrote:
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Don't have any good info for you but another consideration regarding
> multi-homed box:
> If one sensor is outside firewall and another is inside, (a common 
> scenario), you will incur the wrath of the security gods having a 
> machine that bypasses the firewall.
>
> Randy Bey
> RiverNorth Systems
> 7300 W 147th St Suite 300
> Apple Valley, MN 55124
> http://www.rivernorthsys.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Finke [mailto:Jeremy.Finke () MeridianIQ com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 8:46 AM
> To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> Subject: [Snort-users] Design questions...
>
> Hi, hopefully, my email is sorted out now and this will get through...
> I have some performance questions that I hope that someone would be
able
> to help me out with. 
> I am trying to convince my boss to start implementing snort at a
serious
> level. Problem is, he is a windows/closed source type of guy and I am a
> unix/open source type of guy. I am trying to convince him to buy
> seperate boxes for each of the sensors and then a logging box that has
> its own private network to send data across. Ideally, I would have 4
> snort sensors and one of them be an ACID/PHP/MySQL log server. He does
> not want to pay for all the boxes because he thinks that they are going
> to cost $2.5k a pop. I think that we can go with a non major vendor
> (pogo linux, penguin computing, etc....) and get it cheaper, but that
is
> a different story. 
> So, he brought up the idea of having one big box and having multiple
> nics. Now, I know that this can easily be done using multiple snort
> processes/conf files/etc... However, I am wondering about the
> performance of such a beast. What type of horsepower do I need to
> monitor 2 T1s (on seperate networks) and 2 100MB networks (also
> seperate)? Also, it will probably be running the database as well, on a
> seperate network. Can people give me an idea of what they are running
> out there? 
> Thanks! 
> Jeremy Finke 
>
>
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