Re: Snort architecture

[Tony Robinson <trobinson () sourcefire com>]

> From my experience the best documentation on snort's architecture is going
to be in:
1) the snort manual up on snort.org
2) the source code itself
3) the readme files for each portion of snort, included with the source
code packages

Not necessarily the answer most people want to hear, but I would recommend
the snort manual and readme files to get a better understanding on how
snort truly works - most of the books written for snort are outdated, or if
they aren't outdated, they become outdated very quickly due to how often
snort is updated. Readmes and snort.org manual are updated almost as
frequently as, if not as frequenly as, the source code itself.

Regards,

-Tony

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Pratik Narang
<pratik.cse.bits () gmail com>wrote:

> Dear Snort users,
>
> Can anyone please help me out with Snort's architecture-  based on their
> own knowledge, or documentation or books or references available for it. I
> wish to understand the architecture at a high level of abstraction and
> understand the various modules, their dependencies, what part of the source
> code does what, where does the signature engine lie, where is
> the anomaly engine, etc.
>
> Thanks...
>
>
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