Snort and Suricata
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 Hello, 
 I just installed snort and suricata, i want to play with each.
 I am very new and am curious to barnyard2, Is it required?
 How do i configure it? Does it need a username and password?
 Thank you!
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 Barnyard is not required and I may be wrong, but I believe will require a separate Barnyard server. If you are new to Snort or Suricata I would recommend picking one, and working on understanding the way it functions before looking into Barnyard. 
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 I've just removed Snort on a box and put on Suricata. As far as I can tell it behaves about the same but performs much faster, likely due to its ability to multi-thread. 
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 Barnyard is not required and I may be wrong, but I believe will require a separate Barnyard server. If you are new to Snort or Suricata I would recommend picking one, and working on understanding the way it functions before looking into Barnyard. Thank you both, I see that barnyard2 is a dependency for snort and suricata. Is this to enhance performance from another process?