Re: How to setup inline

["Will Metcalf" <william.metcalf () gmail com>]

What distro are you thinking about using?  If you do not wish to reply
to the list with this information, you can reply to me off-list and I
would be glad to point you in the right direction.  Possibly help you
avoid some distro related road bumps.

Regards,

Will

On 4/7/06, Mike Montgomery <mmontgomery () c3bb com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently setup a box running snort at our headend, its not inline as
> of now, but its using a monitor port on a cisco 2950.  What would be the
> ideal setup to put the box inline?  I currently have 2 nics in this box,
> 1 on the monitor port, 2nd is the nic I use to connect to the box for
> console.  To go inline, would I need 3 nics total, 1 in, 1 out, and set
> them to be bridged? Or what.  If I wanted snort to drop the packets for
> say P2P, would snort do that by itself, or would I need to have a
> firewall running to do that.  Just trying to make some sense of this.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike Montgomery
> Citizens Communications Corp.
> /Systems Administrator/
>
>
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