Re: OS to know.

[Patrick <pharper () theinfosecgroup com>]

David Gillett wrote:

>  Some of the tools that make my job much easier are only
> available on Linux....
>  There's probably no reason Windows or Mac versions couldn't
> be written, except that nobody has done it (well) yet.
>
> David Gillett
>
>  
Actually there is, raw socket support and tcp connection limits from Sp2 
for XP break some things.  Just load up a Linux box and learn the OS, it 
is a lot of fun.  I wrote an easy to follow install guide for snort that 
is on the snort.org site that can get you going with both snort and 
Linux.it is written for CentOS, Fedora Core, or RHEL (Redhat Enterprise 
Linux)