About:
Snort is a lightweight network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more. Snort uses a flexible rule based language to describe traffic that it should collect or pass, and a modular detection engine. Snort has a real-time alerting capability, with alert mechanisms for syslog, a user specified file, a UNIX socket, or WinPopup messages to Windows clients using Samba's smbclient.

Author:
Martin Roesch [contact developer]

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8.51/10.00 (24 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.snort.org
Changelog:
http://www.snort.org/docs/change_logs/2.4.0/ChangeLog
Purchase:
http://www.sourcefire.com/
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://snort.cvs.sourceforge.net/snort/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		Microsoft :: Windows :: Windows 95/98/ME, POSIX :: BSD, POSIX :: BSD :: FreeBSD, POSIX :: BSD :: NetBSD, POSIX :: BSD :: OpenBSD, POSIX :: HP-UX, POSIX :: IRIX, POSIX :: Linux, POSIX :: SunOS/Solaris
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		System :: Networking :: Monitoring

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.4.0	13-Sep-2005	GNU General Public License (GPL)

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