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mrash committed Apr 17, 2003
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Expand Up @@ -14,9 +14,11 @@ bourne shell script that implements the resulting iptables ruleset.
This ruleset allows network traffic that exhibits snort signatures to
be logged and/or dropped by iptables directly without putting any interface
into promiscuous mode or queuing packets from kernel to user space. In
addition to translating snort rules, fwsnort (optionally) uses the
IPTables::Parse perl module to only translate snort rules that could
potentially be passed by the existing iptables ruleset.
addition, fwsnort (optionally) uses the IPTables::Parse module to parse
the iptables ruleset on the machine to determine which snort rules are
applicable to the specific iptables policy. After all, if iptables is
blocking all inbound http traffic from external addresses, it is probably
not of much use to try detecting inbound attacks against against tcp/80.
.B fwsnort
relies on the iptables string match module to match snort content fields
in the application portion of ip traffic.
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