Re: first time user, noob question

[Nigel Houghton <nhoughton () sourcefire com>]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Adam Szabo <adamx001 () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a beginner but i'm interested in intrusion prevention, and i just
> recently installed Snort on Windows.
> I didn't make any configuration modification, just started sniffing using
> "snort -v". It was interesting that all i see was UDP traffic.
> Where are all the TCP and ICMP packets?
>
> I know this question sounds stupid so it would be better if i just start
> reading some documentations and tutorials, so could you give me some helpful
> links? The official website wasn't too helpful.
>
> Thanks,
> Adam Szabo
>
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I'm not sure how the official site isn't helpful:

http://www.snort.org/docs

What is it exactly that you cannot find?

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