On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 7:32 PM, compdoc <comp...@hotrodpc.com> wrote:

>
> I've never tried suricata so I cant say if its better, but snort works
> pretty well. There is one problem with snort, however. It can watch
> incoming
> traffic as well as outgoing traffic.
>
> But when snort watches outgoing traffic, it flags and blocks almost
> everything. That's too much trouble for me, so I have snort setup to only
> watch incoming traffic.
>
> Even then, you will have to watch the alert and blocked lists to make sure
> it doesn't block sites you need. That doesn't happen too often, though.
>
> When it does happen, you just click to add those rules to the suppress list
> and remove the ip addresses from the blocked list.


How do you have Snort configured to differentiate between incoming and
outgoing traffic?
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