Re: Snort-Machine = Security Hole?

[Dan Hollis <goemon () anime net>]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Daniel Voyer wrote:
> I put a hub or a switch (with span port) between my firewall and my Internet
> router. On this hub I place a snort machine with two nic.
> The first nic is directly connected to the switch with *0.0.0.0* ip address.

On linux you dont even have to give the nic an ip address.

Just 'ifconfig eth1 up' and snort works. No ip address, no worries.

-Dan


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