Re: Help to run snort on linux machine

[Joel Esler <joel.esler () me com>]

I agree, metaspolit is the best way to test snort, however, let's be clear that metaspolit is not an IDS testing tool. 
It's an exploitation and vulnerability testing tool. 

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On Apr 7, 2010, at 2:58 AM, Alan Ptak <alan.ptak () gmail com> wrote:

> Metasploit ftw!
>
> Nessus and nmap will also generate a good number of snort alerts with a typical set of rules.
>
> Choose your targets carefully :-)
>
> 2010/4/6 Edward Bjarte Fjellskål <edward.fjellskal () redpill-linpro com>
> sri harsha wrote:
> > Thanks for the quick response.
> >
> > Does anybody know any tool which generates attack packets which are
> > stateful in nature and I can use that tool to test snort? I mean it
> > establishes the TCP connection and then send attack packets?
>
> Check out the awesome metasploit framework :)
>
> http://www.metasploit.com/
>
> Be ware, this may exploit the targets if they are vulnerable!
>
>
> :)
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