Snort is a very powerful intrusion detection software system. For Project 2, you

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Snort is a very powerful intrusion detection software system. For Project 2, you are required to install and run Snort on your home computer and home network. The details of the task are as follows. 1. Visit the Snort website for the most updated information about Snort, and study its requirements and current documentation. 2. Download Snort and any other packages required for your platform and install them on your computer as suggested. 4. Write a report on your work and findings from the system.

Explanation / Answer

Step 1
Find the appropriate package for your operating system and install.

Source
Fedora
Centos
FreeBSD
Windows
wget https://www.snort.org/downloads/snort/daq-2.0.6.tar.gz
  
wget https://www.snort.org/downloads/snort/snort-2.9.9.0.tar.gz
tar xvfz daq-2.0.6.tar.gz
  
cd daq-2.0.6
./configure && make && sudo make install
tar xvfz snort-2.9.9.0.tar.gz
  
cd snort-2.9.9.0
./configure --enable-sourcefire && make && sudo make install

Step 2

Sign up/Subscribe
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org will still give you access to the registered user rule packages.

Step 3
Stay current with the latest updates using

wget https://www.snort.org/downloads/community/community-rules.tar.gz -O community-rules.tar.gz
tar -xvfz community.tar.gz -C /etc/snort/rules

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