VMware Debian 8.1 image with snort3 and snort2 preconfigured:
- Memory: 724 MBytes
- Processor: 1
- Hard Disk: 50 GBytes (6.1 GBytes occupied, 41.9 GBytes free)
- Network Adapter: NAT
Feel free to customize these settings.
Download virtual machine image @ Debian 8.1+snort3+snort2.zip size: 2.32 GBytes, uncompressed 6.56 GBytes.
To login digit:
- “user”, as username,
- “password”, as password.
To execute root operations, digit $ su command and then write “toor” as password.
snort3 version 3.0.0-a2-167:
$ snort3a
snort3 version 3.0.0-a2-172:
$ snort3b
snort2 version 2.9.7.6 GRE (Build 285):
$ snort2
#####Snort3 environment Before lunching snort3, don't forget to set up the environment:
$ export LUA_PATH=$SNORT3_PATH/include/snort/lua/\?.lua\;\;
$ export SNORT_LUA_PATH=$SNORT3_PATH/etc/snort
Download snort3 from official repository:
$ git clone git:https://github.com/snortadmin/snort3.git
$ cd snort3/
Create and define installation folder:
$ mkdir -p /path/to/snorty
$ export my_path=/path/to/snorty
/path/to/snorty could be for example: /opt/snort3_new_version
Configure and install into my_path:
$ autoreconf -isvf
$ ./configure --prefix=$my_path && make -j 8 install
Create link to lunch snorty in terminal:
$ su ln -s /path/to/snorty/bin/snort /usr/sbin/snorty
Easy download and install stable snort2 releases through apt-get:
$ su apt-get install snort