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Re: [Snort-users] One interface more than one snort process question

From: James Lay (jlayslave-tothe-box.net)
Date: Mon Jun 10 2013 - 12:12:23 CDT


On 2013-06-10 11:06, SnortFan wrote:
> Any takers? Bueller?
>
> Sent from a mobile device.
>
> On May 30, 2013, at 11:45 AM, SnortFan <SnortFanyahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> I have a customer that wants to feed traffic into another tool
>> from snort but they also want to not have some of the hits from a few
>> custom rules to not show in base. So I was wondering, can I run a two
>> snort processes against one interface both with a different set of
>> rules or filters? One process to feed Base and another to capture a
>> particular group of traffic into another database. Is this possible
>> and what are the downsides?
>>
>> They don't want to speed $$$ for another server.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ed

Yes..you can have two instances of snort running against one NIC...say
something like snort1.conf and snort2.conf, make sure the output lines
aren't the same ;)

James

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