openbsd-ports/net/snort/pkg/DESCR
sturm 42572a3821 update to snort 2.1.2
from maintainer Brian Caswell <bmc at openbsd.org>, tweaks by yours truly
2004-04-12 14:56:31 +00:00

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Snort is a fairly intelligent sniffer/NIDS, with a very strong rule set.
Snort 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 rules language to describe traffic that it should collect
or pass, as well as a detection engine that utilizes a modular plugin
architecture. Snort has a real-time alerting capability as well, incorporating
alerting mechanisms for syslog, a user specified file, a UNIX socket, or
WinPopup messages to Windows clients using Samba's smbclient.
Available flavors:
postgresql - enable postgresql database logging support
mysql - enable mysql database logging support
smbalert - enable samba logging support
flexresp - enable dynamic connection killing support