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Re: snort on router - risks?
From: Marcus Schopen <lists () localguru de>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:18:37 +0200
Hi Bennett, Bennett Todd wrote:
If performance is not a concern --- and with a DSL link it's probably not --- then go ahead with it.
o.k.
Make sure you run your snort chrooted, as a non-priv uid/gid; and keep an eye out for snort updates that fix security bugs.
Someone on the debian-user list wrote, that setting ppp0 interface to promiscous mode is not a good idea, but he didn't explain why. Is that right?
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- Re: snort on router - risks? Marcus Schopen (Aug 18)
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