Tool of the Day: Snort Snort is a libpcap-based packet sniffer/logger which can be used as a lightweight network intrusion detection system. It features rules based logging and can perform content searching/matching in addition to being used to detect a variety of other attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, and much more. Snort has a real-time alerting capability, with alerts being sent to syslog, a separate "alert" file, or even to a Windows computer via Samba. This package provides the plain-vanilla version of Snort and does not provide database (available in snort-pgsql and snort-mysql) support.
version: snort 2.9.2-3ubuntu1 size: 2.1 MB to download, 11.2 MB when installed for more details: http://www.snort.org/ regards, dhanasekar _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
