Re: Snort version vs Snort rules version

[Nigel Houghton <nhoughton () sourcefire com>]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:16:06 -0800, NA wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> It may be obvious to many that the Snort ruleset version should match 
> the Snort installed version but I found myself in a different situation.
>
> Concentrating on installing the latest Snort with all the other 
> accompanying programs was my first priority. Then moving on to 
> configuring and using Snort I found that the latest rules were 
> subscriber only and choose to install the registered version ruleset.
>
> So this begs the question, is it a bad idea to use the latest Snort 
> version with the registered ruleset? Is there some rule of thumb to go 
> by to avoid problems?
>
> Thanks

If you use Snort 2.9.0.3 then any of the 2.9.0.x rules will work for 
you.

--
Nigel Houghton
Head Mentalist
SF VRT Department of Intelligence Excellence
http://vrt-blog.snort.org/ && http://labs.snort.org/

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