Documents

The following setup guides have been contributed by members of the Snort Community for your use. Comments and questions on these documents should be submitted directly to the author by clicking on their names below.

Snort Setup Guides
Snort 3 on CentOS 7
Yaser Mansour
Snort 3 on FreeBSD 11
Yaser Mansour
Snort 3.0.0-a4 on OpenSuSe 42.3
Boris Gomez
Snort 2.9.8.x on CentOS 6.x and 7.x
William Parker
Snort 2.9.8.x on OpenSuSE 13x
William Parker
Snort 2.9.8.x on Fedora 22
William Parker
Snort 2.9.8.x on NetBSD 5.1.x
William Parker
Snort 2.9.9.x on OpenSuSE Leap 42.2
Boris Gomez
Snort Setup Guides for Windows
WinSnort.com
Snort 2.9.8.x on OpenSuSE 12x
William Parker
Snort 2.9.9.x on Ubuntu 14 -16
Noah Dietrich
Snort 2.9.0.x with PF_RING inline deployment
Metaflows Google Group
Snort 2.9.8.x on OpenBSD 5.x
William Parker
Snort 2.9.8.x on Fedora 17/18/19
William Parker
Snort 3 on Ubuntu 14, 16, 17
Noah Dietrich
Snort Deployment Guides
Snort IPS using DAQ AFPacket
Yaser Mansour
Integrating Snort and AlienVault OSSIM
William Parker
Integrating Snort-2.9.8.x with AlienVault OSSIM
William Parker
How to make some Home Routers mirror traffic to Snort
William Parker
RSyslog rate limiting configuration
William Parker
Snort IPS Tutorial
Vladimir Koychev
Changing from IDS to IPS with NFQueue
James Lay
Snort Related Whitepapers
Target Based Stream Reassembly
Judy Novak
Using Perfmon and Performance Profiling to Tune Snort Preprocessors and Rules
Steve Sturges
Target Based Fragmentation Reassembly
Judy Novak
HTTP Evasions Revisited
Daniel Roelker
Inline Normalization using Snort 2.9.0
Russ Combs
VRT Methodology Whitepaper
Vulnerability Research Team (VRT)
Optimization of Pattern Matches for IDS
Marc Norton
Webcast Slides
Pimp My Snort
Leon Ward
Writing Effective Rules, Part II
Matt Olney
Effective Problem Reporting: How to Get Your Problems Noticed and Fixed
Intro to Snort
Ed Mendez
Using the Host Attribute Table in Snort
OpenAppId Community Webinar
Costas Kleopa
Snort Tuning 101
Nick Moore
Using Multiconfig
John Gay
Introduction to Snort: Part 1
Nick Moore
Open Source Community Webinar
Joel Esler
OpenAppId Detection Webinar
Costas Kleopa
Writing Effective Rules, Part I
Matt Olney
Performance Tuning: Rules & Preprocessors
CONF files
snort.2091101.conf
Talos
classification.config
Talos
snort.2990.conf
Talos
snort.2983.conf
Talos
snort.2091100.conf
Talos
snort.2091000.conf
Talos
snort.2976.conf
Talos
reference.config
Talos
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