Re: locking down snort

[Nasir Ghaznavi <nasirghaznavi () gmail com>]

If you are running snort on the same host then snort will be able to
see the traffic, it is below the firewall's influence and uses pcap,
doesnt bind to the ports, so it will be able to see the traffic.

Nasir Ghaznavi

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:28:43 -0700, Jose Guevarra <jose () iquest ucsb edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I have some machines running snort.  I'd like to restrict ssh/http and
> other access to them. However, I'm not sure if in doing so, would snort not
> 'grab' and analyze traffic hitting those ports.  I guess I'm asking
>
> - if I blocked those ports from the outside world would I still detect say a
> port scan on those ports?
>
> - Who captures the packets first: Firewall(IPTABLES) or SNORT?
>
> Thanks,
>
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