Re: Snort and IPtables...

[Phil Wood <cpw () cynosure lanl gov>]

Iptables does not interfere with snort what so ever.  However, if for some
reason you want to send a test packet out your snort interface, iptables 
might be configured to drop it, re-route it, change the contents, or whatever
other wonderful things it does to packets before snort (libpcap) sees it.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:44:22PM -0800, Tobias Rice wrote:
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> Hello again.
> I'm curious how Snort (well at least libpcap) is affected by IPtables? 
> <assumptions> Libpcap operates at layer 2 and IPtables above that </assumptions> 
> If that is the case I'm assuming that IPtables could be tightened down without interference with Snort? I'm sure that 
> I'm way off, so please enlighten me.
> Many thanks.
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