Re: Monitoring incoming or outgoing traffic

[Jeremy Hoel <jthoel () gmail com>]

> From snort itself you could use some for of BPF filter, or configure the
tap/span to only send one direction of traffic, if possible.   To snort,
it's all inbound in IDS mode.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:18 PM, Anshuman Anil Deshmukh <anshuman () cybage com
> wrote:

>  Hi,
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> Is there a way in Snort to just monitor the incoming or outgoing traffic
> in IDS mode? Do we need to specify this under threshold.conf or somewhere
> else? We are on version Snort 2.9.7.0
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> Regards,
>
> Anshuman
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