RE: Snort on Mandrake 9.0

["Miller, Eoin" <Miller () fhlb-of com>]

mandrake comes with shorewall as its built in firewall, just run
drakconf to set it up, its already installed and started by default
(with an empty ruleset) when you install mandrake 9.0 in high security
mode, make sure you don't use paranoid mode, you really wont be able to
do much of anything.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) [mailto:E.M.J.Vaessen () MDI RWS MINVENW NL] 
> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 10:36 AM
> To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> Subject: [Snort-users] Snort on Mandrake 9.0
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have installed mandrake 9.0 on a single home PC connected 
> to the internet (ISP xs4all, the Netherlands) by ADSL. At 
> times I may be connected to the internet for hours. The 
> security setting (using msec) was set to "high". Furthermore 
> I tried to set the firewall using the menu Mandrake provides 
> for that but in that simple menu I could not let the firewall 
> apply to any service (not even
> cups) without blocking the contact between my browser 
> (Netscape 7.0) and the internet. It is not something I 
> understand. As far as I can guess there is no firewall at all 
> on my system. Out of curiosity I installed snort and the 
> question is if this is a sensible thing to do in order to 
> improve the protection of my system. I read somewhere that 
> snort itself may be vulnerable without a firewall in between.
>
> As you may deduce from this I am a complete newbie in the 
> field of security.
>
> Ed Vaessen
>
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