If you haven’t read the first part of this series, I would greatly recommend to check it out. Configuring the snort completely lies in changing the configuration setting in the snort.conf file. The configuration file is excellently documented and very easy to use. The default location of snort.conf file is ‘C:\Snort\etc’. ‘etc’ folder contains all configuration files. The configuration file is plain text and you can use any text editor to edit it, but recommend…

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Download CentOS 8 Stream- http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/8-stream/isos/x86_64/ Download LibDAQ- https://github.com/snort3/libdaq The following dependencies are mandatory for installing snort- dnet, pcap, pcre, openssl, zlib, pkgconfig,LuaJIT,hwloc, LibDAQ, libmnl. Preparation Building snort on Centos requires several development libraries which are not present in the default repositories- AppStream, Base or Extra. Instead, these libraries exist in the PowerTools repository, which is disabled by default. Hence, the PowerTools repository is enabled first. # dnf config-manager –add-repo /etc/yum.repos.d/ CentOS-Stream-PowerTools.repo # dnf config-manager –set-enabled…

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