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    Installed Snort - how do I know it's working?

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      Deadringers last edited by

      Morning all,

      I installed Snort and have it setup to run all the rules on the WAN interface…it looks like it's active but how do I know if it's working?

      I have been to the alerts page and the blocked hosts page on the snort part of the firewall interface but I can't see anything that has been blocked and no alerts?

      Which leads me to believe either:
      1 - It's not working properly and I've done something wrong

      or

      2 - it has detected nothing which needs to trigger a rule.

      I don't believe that it's number 2 for a second as I have tried to load some "dodgy" sites and downloaded some questionable material as a test into a VM of mine.

      Thoughts?

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        Deadringers last edited by

        @Deadringers:

        Morning all,

        I installed Snort and have it setup to run all the rules on the WAN interface…it looks like it's active but how do I know if it's working?

        I have been to the alerts page and the blocked hosts page on the snort part of the firewall interface but I can't see anything that has been blocked and no alerts?

        Which leads me to believe either:
        1 - It's not working properly and I've done something wrong

        or

        2 - it has detected nothing which needs to trigger a rule.

        I don't believe that it's number 2 for a second as I have tried to load some "dodgy" sites and downloaded some questionable material as a test into a VM of mine.

        Thoughts?

        Ahh right I have it up and running properly now! :)

        a reboot of the firewall sorted things out and now I can see the logs being generated.

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