Re: Snort Upgrade

[James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net>]

Choose your Linux distro from the link below...should work with only
minor tweaks:
https://www.snort.org/documents
James
On Fri, 2017-01-13 at 21:46 +0000, Neelakantam, Raju wrote:
> Hi Snort Team,
>  
> We are currently running snort version 2.9.6.2 in our enterprise. I
> read in snort blog about the 2.9.6.2 end of life.
>  
> How can we upgrade the snort to latest version?
> What version is recommended?
> What is the upgrade process?
> Should we install new version from scratch? Is there way to retain
> the current configuration during the new version upgrade?
>  
> # snort -V
>  
>    ,,_     -*> Snort! <*-
>   o"  )~   Version 2.9.6.1 GRE (Build 56)
>    ''''    By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team: http://www.snort.org/sn
> ort/snort-team
>            Copyright (C) 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights
> reserved.
>            Copyright (C) 1998-2013 Sourcefire, Inc., et al.
>            Using libpcap version 1.4.0
>            Using PCRE version: 7.8 2008-09-05
>            Using ZLIB version: 1.2.3
>  
> And there is pulledpork package being in use. However, unable to
> identify the latest rules update.
>  
>  
> Regards,
> Raju
>  
> From: Joel Esler (jesler) [mailto:jesler () cisco com] 
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 12:53 PM
> To: Neelakantam, Raju <Raju.Neelakantam () contractor ca com>
> Cc: snort-site(mailer list) <snort-site () cisco com>
> Subject: Re: Snort Upgrade
>  
> Sorry. https://www.snort.org/community
>
> --
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 13, 2017, at 3:43 PM, Neelakantam, Raju 
> ractor.ca.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Joel,
>  
> This what I get from the link, see attached. Could you provide
> working link?
>  
>  
>  
> Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE device
>  
> ------ Original message------
> From: Joel Esler (jesler)
> Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2017 12:08 PM
> To: Neelakantam, Raju;
> Cc: snort-site(mailer list);
> Subject:Re: Snort Upgrade
>  
> Please direct your questions to the Snort mailing lists: http://www.s
> nort.org/community/mailing-lists 
>
> --
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 13, 2017, at 2:21 PM, Neelakantam, Raju 
> ractor.ca.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Snort Team,
>  
> We are currently running snort version 2.9.6.2 in our enterprise. I
> read in snort blog about the 2.9.6.2 end of life.
>  
> How can we upgrade the snort to latest version?
> What version is recommended?
> What is the upgrade process?
> Should we install new version from scratch? Is there way to retain
> the current configuration during the new version upgrade?
>  
> # snort -V
>  
>    ,,_     -*> Snort! <*-
>   o"  )~   Version 2.9.6.1 GRE (Build 56)
>    ''''    By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team: http://www.snort.org/sn
> ort/snort-team
>            Copyright (C) 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights
> reserved.
>            Copyright (C) 1998-2013 Sourcefire, Inc., et al.
>            Using libpcap version 1.4.0
>            Using PCRE version: 7.8 2008-09-05
>            Using ZLIB version: 1.2.3
>  
> And there is pulledpork package being in use. However, unable to
> identify the latest rules update.
>  
>  
> Regards,
> Raju
>  
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