Re: snort on one interface

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

On Jul 18, 2012, at 3:46 PM, Adam <adam () grandcare com> wrote:

> So I want to run snort in ubuntu on a rackspace cloud server with only
> one interface "eth0", can this be done? Thank you.

Yes.  You'd have to issue Snort the -i eth0 command as you would any other time, but I'd also turn of tcpchecksum 
checking (-k none) since you are trying to sniff, essentially, you own box.

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Joel Esler
Senior Research Engineer, VRT
OpenSource Community Manager
Sourcefire

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