Snort mailing list archives

Re: Compiling and Running Snort 2.9.8.0 on MAC OSX 10.11.3 (El Capitan)


From: Madhu Rao <k.madhurao.123 () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:19:44 -0600

Joel

thanks a bunch!! you pointed the issue!!
I was cutting and pasting the commands from Ubuntu machine... and trying to
run commands I ran on ubuntu....

This worked now..

sudo snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -i en0 -k none


I am able to fire up snort now on my MAC..


thanks EveryOne for the pointers..

In case someone needs complete instructions I followed to BUILD snort
2.9.8.1 on MAC OSX Version 10.11.3 (El Capitan) -- Here are the
istructions!


1) Install Xcode (XCode includes the compiler and other libraries required
to compile Snort)

2) Install MacPorts from http://www.macports.org/

Note: You may consider updating ports itself if you had installed ports
long back.   Try running 'sudo port selfupdate' & 'sudo port upgrade
outdated'

3) Install PCRE via MacPorts

‘sudo port install pcre’

4) Install wget via MacPorts

'sudo port install wget’



5) Download Dependent Packages and Make/Install them

5a) Install Directory

Assume BUILD_DIR=/Users/mrjoe/work/snort  (note it can be any dir..)

export BUILD_DIR=/Users/mrjoe/work/snort


5a) DNET

cd $BUILD_DIR

wget http://libdnet.googlecode.com/files/libdnet-1.12.tgz

tar xvfz libdnet-1.12.tgz

cd libdnet-1.12

./configure

sudo make install





5b) pkg-config

snort madhurao$ wget
http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.28.tar.gz

tar -xvf pkg-config-0.28.tar.gz

cd pkg-config-0.28

./configure --with-internal-glib

sudo make install



5b) LuaJIT

cd $BUILD_DIR

wget http://luajit.org/download/LuaJIT-2.0.2.tar.gz

tar xzvf LuaJIT-2.0.2.tar.gz

cd LuaJIT-2.0.2

make

sudo make install


5c) DAQ

cd $BUILD_DIR

wget https://www.snort.org/downloads/snort/daq-2.0.6.tar.gz

tar xvfz daq-2.0.6.tar.gz

cd daq-2.0.6

./configure --disable-afpacket-module

make

sudo make install





5) Download & Build Snort



cd $BUILD_DIR

wget –no-check-certificate  -O snort-2.9.8.0.tar.gz
https://www.snort.org/downloads/snort/snort-2.9.8.0.tar.gz

./configure --enable-sourcefire --enable-open-appid

make

sudo make install



At this Point you can start configuring for a test run







8) Configure Snort without OpenAppID enabled:

sudo mkdir /etc/snort

sudo mkdir /var/log/snort

sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/snort_dynamicrules

sudo mkdir /etc/snort/rules

sudo touch /etc/snort/rules/white_list.rules

sudo touch /etc/snort/rules/black_list.rules





9) Copy configuration files you build

cd /Users/madhurao/work/snort/snort-2.9.8.0/etc/

cp attribute_table.dtd file_magic.conf snort.conf unicode.map
classification.config gen-msg.map reference.config threshold.conf
/etc/snort/





10) Add some SNORT rules from snort.org

cd $BUILD_DIR

mkdir crules

cd crules

From the Website, Download the LATEST Snort Rules.

https://www.snort.org/downloads/registered/snortrules-snapshot-2980.tar.gz

     NOTE:  This CLI method does not work.. unfortunately.

     wget
https://www.snort.org/downloads/registered/snortrules-snapshot-2962.tar.gz
(You will need to snort.org with a username/password (FREE) to get this)

tar -xvfz snortrules-snapshot-2962.tar.gz

sudo cp -r preproc_rules /etc/snort

sudo cp -r rules /etc/snort

sudo cp -r so_rules /etc/snort





11) EDIT /etc/snort/snort.conf File

cd /etc/snort

sudo vi snort.conf

     EDIT the following lines as shown

var RULE_PATH /etc/snort/rules

var SO_RULE_PATH /etc/snort/so_rules

var PREPROC_RULE_PATH /etc/snort/preproc_rules

var WHITE_LIST_PATH /etc/snort/rules

var BLACK_LIST_PATH /etc/snort/rules





11) Fire up snort and do self test (-T option)

sudo snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -T

....you will see something like this

Snort successfully validated the configuration!

Snort exiting





12) Enabling OpenAppID in Snort

wget https://www.snort.org/downloads/openappid/3192 -O
snort-openappid.tar.gz

tar xvfz snort-openappid.tar.gz

sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/openappid

sudo mv odp /usr/local/lib/openappid/



     Edit the /etc/snort/snort.conf File

sudo vi /etc/snort/snort.conf

     Search for "Step #5: Configure preprocessors"

     After this Line -- "preprocessor reputation:"  Add the following Lines
to enable OpenAppId.



# AppID preprocessor. For more information see README.appid

preprocessor appid : \

   app_stats_filename appstats-unified.log, \

   app_stats_period 60, \

   app_detector_dir /usr/local/lib/openappid



Finally, uncomment this Line in snort.conf file

output unified2: filename merged.log, limit 128, nostamp, mpls_event_types,
vlan_event_types





12) Test snort with OpenAppID in Snort

sudo snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf --daq afpacket -i eth0 -k none

sudo snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf --daq pcap --daq-mode passive -i eth0
-k none





You will see the Following when SNORT run properly on MAC

MADHURAO-M-90DD:snort madhurao$ sudo snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf --daq
pcap --daq-mode passive -i en0 -k none

Password:

Running in IDS mode



        --== Initializing Snort ==--

Initializing Output Plugins!

....

      Ports (PAF): 80 81 311 383 591 593 901 1220 1414 1741 1830 2301 2381
2809 3037 3128 3702 4343 4848 5250 6988 7000 7001 7144 7145 7510 7777 7779
8000 8008 8014 8028 8080 8085 8088 8090 8118 8123 8180 8181 8243 8280 8300
8800 8888 8899 9000 9060 9080 9090 9091 9443 9999 11371 34443 34444 41080
50002 55555

....

           Rules Engine: SF_SNORT_DETECTION_ENGINE  Version 2.4  <Build 1>

           Preprocessor Object: SF_SSLPP  Version 1.1  <Build 4>

           Preprocessor Object: SF_SSH  Version 1.1  <Build 3>

           Preprocessor Object: SF_SMTP  Version 1.1  <Build 9>

           Preprocessor Object: SF_SIP  Version 1.1  <Build 1>

           Preprocessor Object: SF_SDF  Version 1.1  <Build 1>

           Preprocessor Object: SF_REPUTATION  Version 1.1  <Build 1>

           Preprocessor Object: SF_POP  Version 1.0  <Build 1>

           Preprocessor Object: SF_MODBUS  Version 1.1  <Build 1>

           Preprocessor Object: SF_IMAP  Version 1.0  <Build 1>

           Preprocessor Object: SF_GTP  Version 1.1  <Build 1>

           Preprocessor Object: SF_FTPTELNET  Version 1.2  <Build 13>

           Preprocessor Object: SF_DNS  Version 1.1  <Build 4>

           Preprocessor Object: SF_DNP3  Version 1.1  <Build 1>

           Preprocessor Object: SF_DCERPC2  Version 1.0  <Build 3>

           Preprocessor Object: appid  Version 1.1  <Build 5>

Commencing packet processing (pid=66645)

...



 Cheers.



On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Joel Esler (jesler) <jesler () cisco com>
wrote:

I don’t think that the interface would be called “eth0” on a mac.  You may
want to make sure you have the right device specified.

--
*Joel Esler*
Manager, Talos Group




On Feb 12, 2016, at 5:04 PM, Madhu Rao <k.madhurao.123 () gmail com> wrote:

Hi Folks

Has anyone had Luck downloading and compiling snort 2.9.8.0 and get it
working on Latest MAC OS X El Capitan ?
I have a macbook pro running El Capitan. (OSX 10.11.3)

I See the following Errors when I run Snort.

$ sudo snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf --daq pcap --daq-mode passive -i
eth0 -k none

pcap DAQ configured to passive.

Acquiring network traffic from "eth0".

Reload thread starting...

Reload thread started, thread 0x700000081000 (41553)

ERROR: Can't start DAQ (-1) - BIOCSETIF failed: Device not configured!

Fatal Error, Quitting..


BTW - when I configured DAQ, this was the outcome.

$cd daq-2.0.6

./configure --disable-afpacket-module

...

Build AFPacket DAQ module.. : no
Build Dump DAQ module...... : yes
Build IPFW DAQ module...... : yes
Build IPQ DAQ module....... : no
Build NFQ DAQ module....... : no
Build PCAP DAQ module...... : yes
Build netmap DAQ module.... : no


Any pointers appreciated.

-- madhu



------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance
APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month
Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now
Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now!

http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140_______________________________________________
Snort-devel mailing list
Snort-devel () lists sourceforge net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-devel
Archive:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=snort-devel

Please visit http://blog.snort.org for the latest news about Snort!



------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance
APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month
Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now
Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now!
http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140
_______________________________________________
Snort-devel mailing list
Snort-devel () lists sourceforge net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-devel
Archive:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=snort-devel

Please visit http://blog.snort.org for the latest news about Snort!

Current thread: