Re: Snort in offline mode?

[Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc com>]

Ramkumar Chinchani wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Does Snort have an offline mode of operation?
>
> That is, can I configure Snort to read (say) tcpdump files and perform
> IDS work rather than read packets off the wire.

Yes, snort can read tcpdump files with the -r command-line parameter.
See man snort for details.


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