[Gslug-general] Snort

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Glenn Stone wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:13:56PM -0800, Aaron O. Appelbaum wrote:
> >
> >   Thanks Glenn! I think I'll try OpenBSD and see how it goes. I am going
> >   to go with a HD based install. I may have more questions about
> >   mounting the drive as read-only and using a remote syslog server, but
> >   I must stay focused and just try to get the IDS up first!
> >   I will be installing Snort on a laptop. I've heard about problems with
> >   Free/Open BSD and cardbus. Do you know if  OpenBSD 4.2 supports 32bit
> >   cardbus?

Aaron,

Have a look at http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html and 
http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html which both mention support for "32-Bit 
CardBus PC Cards".

Also just to let you know, there is a Seattle area BSD User Group (but no 
meetings in a long time) that has a mailing list: 
http://www.seabug.org/list.html

> No idea, but their docs are pretty complete.  One thing about the BSDs, they
> either do or they don't, there's not much in the way of modules you can play
> with.

Depends on the BSD -- FreeBSD has many modules and suggests using them. 
For example, see:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html
(Also has a DRM video modules and many others.)

  Jeremy C. Reed