Snort mailing list archives
Re: Snort 2.3
From: James Riden <j.riden () massey ac nz>
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:42:27 +1300
SN ORT <snort_on_acid () yahoo com> writes:
Ha! If you don't have time to "patch manually" you don't have time to try and "trim down" a distro. The point is you don't need to patch and you don't need any newer OS, especially if you're just going to "trim it down" anyways. Besides, those OSes you mentioned aren't going to trim down very much, what with all that gui and junk that comes with it. Many people here probably don't patch their Snort boxes at all. I don't. It has ACL'd access per host, I don't need to worry about patching every other day and wondering, "Now what options did I last compile that with?" !! "Oh now everything's broke!...etc"
AFAIK you can install any of the major modern distro's (Fedora, Red Hat, Debian) without X and without GUIs. I'm trying to keep up with 100Mbit/s upwards and believe me, a basic 600Mb Fedora Core 3 install doesn't make that much difference either way. You can bet I keep all my IDS sensors up to date with patches; that is SOP for any box that can receive any kind of IP traffic, ACLs or no. What happens if someone compromises a box that is allowed to send to that host? -- James Riden / j.riden () massey ac nz / Systems Security Engineer Information Technology Services, Massey University, NZ. GPG public key available at: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~jriden/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
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- Snort 2.3 Narayan Sivaramakrishnan (Feb 02)
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- RE: Snort 2.3 Harper, Patrick (Feb 02)
- RE: Snort 2.3 SN ORT (Feb 03)
- RE: Snort 2.3 Ron Jenkins (Feb 03)
- RE: Snort 2.3 Harper, Patrick (Feb 03)
- RE: Snort 2.3 SN ORT (Feb 03)
- Re: Snort 2.3 James Riden (Feb 03)
- RE: Snort 2.3 SN ORT (Feb 03)
- RE: Snort 2.3 Ron Jenkins (Feb 03)
- RE: Snort 2.3 Ron Jenkins (Feb 03)
- Re: Snort 2.3 SN ORT (Feb 04)