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system requirement for Snort

Posted by Nitin on June 07, 2006 01:36:14

I wanna know what is the minimum system requirement to install snort on linux 2.6.x

Posted by gbobeck on June 13, 2006 16:58:37

It all depends on how much traffic you want your snort box to be able to handle.

If you need to handle an industrial ammount of bandwidth, you will need a fast processor with a lot of ram, or else you'll drop packets like crazy.

If you are going to handle the equivalent of a DSL / Cable connection, A pentium 3 with 128 megs of ram should work fine.

I've gotten Snort to work nicely on systems running Knoppix on a P3 based machine with less than 128 megs of ram.

Hope that helps.