Kickstarter had/has a campaign by iguardian to create a snort appliance. It 
looks like something you are trying to do. Instead of pf, it is based on 
openwrt. Check it out. 

Yudhvir 

> On Sep 29, 2014, at 4:22 PM, Ivo Tonev <i...@tonev.pro.br> wrote:
> 
> I don't like the bridge approach because if you have many vlans it become 
> very complicated.
> 
> I always use the router approach because I can configure the IDS for one 
> interface and IPS for another.
> 
> If you don't have enough IP addresses, you can use invalid IP on firewall WAN 
> and create a route on your router to reach your range.
> 
>> On Sep 29, 2014 7:31 PM, "Jeronimo L. Cabral" <jelocab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear, do I have to have 3 network interfaces or 2 interfaces are enough to 
>> implement the IPS??? Because I think I'll have 1 promiscuos WAN, 1 
>> promiscuos LAN and 1 management.
>> 
>> The Pfsense firewall has to be setup as BRIDGE if  want to put it between 
>> the router and the corporate firewall ???
>> 
>> Special thanks,
>> 
>> JeLo
>> 
>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 5:35 PM, compdoc <comp...@hotrodpc.com> wrote:
>>> > Here is a good place to start regarding Suricata or Snort. 
>>> >
>>> >http://www.linux.org/threads/suricata-the-snort-replacer-part-1-intro-install.4346/
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Is the free to use version of Snort going away? I scanned the page 
>>> mentioned above but it seems unclear.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Suricata sounds like an excellent replacement given the advanced features, 
>>> but I have to say Snort is doing a fine job for us.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> I use the free Registered User rules and the free Emerging Threats rules, 
>>> and Snort is busy blocking port scans and all kinds of activity, while not 
>>> bothering/blocking our user's activity.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Not that we rely solely on Snort - no unnecessary ports are listening to 
>>> the web. No management ports like 22 are open.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Anyway, Snort doesn’t use much cpu time for our 30 user office, and pfSense 
>>> makes it (kinda) easy to use. Until Suricata arrives for pfSense, I think 
>>> its fine.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> By the way, if you have a decent speed quad-core server with at least 8GB 
>>> ram, you can easily run pfSense, Suricata, and whatever else side by side 
>>> in virtual machines.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>>  
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