On Saturday 19 April 2003 9:31 pm, Jim Norton wrote:
Is snort pretty easy to install and setup? Do I need to be running a firewall?
snort was very easy for me because it is included with the Smoothwall system and only requires a little checkbox to be set to turn it on. Smoothwall is a distribution which turns an old PC into a standalone firewall cum internet connection sharing machine. I've got mine running on an old Pentium 100 with 32MB ram sitting in the cupboard with no monitor, mouse or keyboard connected (set to ignore all bios errors during POST), I control the machine via a web interface control panel. It has two interfaces, the modem to the outside world (set to dial on demand) and the network card that's connected to my five port switch, all the rest of my machines are connected to that switch. Smoothwall also supports cable modems and ISDN connections. For more information on Smoothwall, go to the GPL site (there is a commercial version available which has extra functionality) (Please note, SuSE themselves also produce a commercial firewall solution as well that runs entirely from CDrom) http://www.smoothwall.org/