Re: Snort and ADSL

[James Fryman <jfryman () gmail com>]

Mike,

Two options.

1) Get yourself a passive ethernet tap. These can be made cheaply or
bought for some $$. Keep in mind, good taps are not cheap.

2) Grab a cheap dummy hub, and stick it inbetween your Netscreen and
your DSL modem. Stick your snort box in promiscuous mode, and snort
away! I would create yourself a listening Cat5 cable on Internet NIC
segment to prevent any outgoing traffic on your listening port back to
the Internet.

Some good documents exist on the Snort website to get you started:
http://www.snort.org/docs/#deploy

Good luck.

-James

Mike Gilligan wrote:
> Hi list.
> I have a Netscreen 5GT ADSL FW at my home with two interfaces - inside
> and outside. I do have a basic set of IDS sigs on the Netscreen but I
> would like to set up a Snort sensor outside the Firewall to look at
> unblocked alerts. However, I only have an RJ11 telephone cable to my
> ADSL port on the Netscreen and no where to plug in a Snort sensor. I
> could plug it in on the inside but I miss a lot of the traffic already
> dropped. I know that some SOHO Firewalls like the Linksys ones let you
> run Snort on the box itself but this isn't an option for me. Could
> anyone suggest a feasible solution?
>
> thanks.
>
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