Chapter 10. DEPLOYING FWSNORT
With the theoretical discussion in Chapter 9 on the emulation of Snort rule options within iptables behind us, we'll talk in this chapter about how to get fwsnort to actually do something! Namely, we'll discuss the administration of fwsnort and illustrate how it can be used to instruct iptables to detect attacks that are associated with the Snort signature ruleset.
Installing fwsnort
Like psad, fwsnort comes bundled with its own installation program install.pl. This program handles all aspects of installation, including preserving configurations from a previous installation of fwsnort, the installation of two Perl modules (Net::IPv4Addr and IPTables::Parse), and the (optional) downloading of the latest Bleeding Snort ...
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