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Date:      Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:29:59 -0000
From:      Lee Brotherston <lee.brotherston@uk.easynet.net>
To:        'Haikal Saadh' <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com>, 'Krzysztof Zaraska' <kzaraska@student.uci.agh.edu.pl>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Which intrusion detection to use?
Message-ID:  <7052044C7D7AD511A20200508B5A9C58516AF7@MAGRAT>

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| What I'd like to someone to clarify for me is:
| Is snort actually seeing incoming packets on my outside interface, and
| I've been really lucky so far
| 		OR
| Is snort not hearing anything on my outside interface? (tun0)

Have you tried waiting until the dialup connection is established then
running snort with: 

-i tun0

This specifies which interface to listen on.  You will of course not see any
traffic on your local lan anymore, as it will not be sniffing the interface
connected to your hub/switch.  It should however pickup the inbound traffic
and any local traffic that goes out over the interface.

If you want to get paranoid run snort on all interfaces and compare the
results :)

Normally you need to run an instance per interface, unless you're using a
linux 2.1.x/2.2.x kernel.  If you are you might want to see
http://www.snort.org/docs/faq.html#3.4

Thanks

  Lee

-- 
Lee Brotherston  -  IP Security Manager, Easynet Ltd
http://www.easynet.net/         Phone: +44 20 7900 4444

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