Snort - how it came about!

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Hi forum members,

The defacto Intrusion Detection programme, born out of a sniffer is Snort, how Snort cane to be what it is to-day, the absolute standard, you can hear here in a 18 min Flash stream interview with the developer of Snort, interested, click this link:
http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=860

greets,

polonus

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Anyone can burn a bootable live Knoppix Linux CD and you will have Linux and snort in less than five minutes boot time. Out of curiosity I used it to figure out what my neighbors were using as far as wireless encryption. Unfortunately, Snort can be used to for malicious behavior.

Knoppix comes with a ton of Linux application software, including Snort. In fact, I recommend people to burn a CD just so they can experience Linux without having to actually install it. Don’t worry about security while online with Linux. It virtually doesn’t need any security added to it. It is already built in. Linux is almost there alongside Windows as far as productivity is concerned. It is way ahead on security.

http://www.knoppix.net/

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Howdy Culpeper,

Hi, do you know if you could have a knoppix distro on a Mem Disk,
so you can try it out from there? How do you do this?

polonus

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I don’t know about that ??? You will need to check out the Knoppix site to see what media can be used. All I know about is the bootable CD.

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There are a lot of references to do that. Unfortunatelly, I’ve tried a lot of times and anything seems strange in my computer.
I can’t boot by the USB stick, only with a bootable CD. I try at least four Linux distros and two programs to ‘convert’ them from bootable CD to USB stick… no success :cry:

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BIOS would have to look for the USB disk as a bootable option. As far as I know there is none.

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Damian?

Could you check this one out? http://www.weethet.nl/english/hardware_bootfromusbstick.php

This one should help as well http://rz-obrian.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/knoppix-usb/

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Hi ReVaN,

Yep, we are going to experiment, what I have now in the mem stick is the ported Flock, all sort of security tools and fixtools,
and a couple of application scanners. Only a 50 MBs worth, so plenty of space left. You hear of me later. Sorry I am not any longer a young dog like you, there are still so many paths to follow down I have not travelled. Be on safe tracks always, is the wish of,

polonus aka D.

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It will be there if the USB stick is detected as a HDD (into the hard disk types) or into Floppy options (if it’s formated as FAT16 like a big floppy). I think Bios is not the problem, it detects perfectly the stick as a boot option. The light turns on and nothing…

I definitevely will try the suggestions… seems very good… I’ll post the results. Thanks Mike.

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No problem guys!I currently don’t have the time to play with this(and i would sure like to) but i am relying on you guys to play with this and report back on your progress OK?BTW you guys should really try to port this distro on your usb’s cause it’s only 50MB and i have heard some good stuff about it http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ has a nice name doesn’t it?DSL or damn small linux hihihi ;D

Cheers my friends and have a good time playing with this(i bet you will :wink: )

Mikey

EDIT:In case you guys missed this at the main DSL site here is the WIKI on DSL you should find sections in there about USB booting… http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page