Dec 31 2003
Updating to Snort 2.1.0
I spent yesterday updating my work and personal IDS’s to Snort 2.1.0. My home system was at revision 2.0.3, and it ended up being easier to throw out my previous configuration and ruleset than to try and figure out what was causing the problem. Snort has added some very powerful new preprocessors to the program, but in the process has depreciated some of the older preprocessors and made the old configuration file useless.
So what do I plan on doing with my newly updated Intrusion Detection System? I think that shortly after the new year starts, I’ll set up a sacrificial FTP server off of the main network and see how long it takes to be hacked. Oh, the strange things computer geeks consider to be fun, though, in my case, I do consider my hobby to also be a business education. My only problem is that I don’t have the room (or power) available in my office to add one more computer. Anyone know how to get a USB wireless card to work under Redhat Linux 9.0?