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    a snort question??

    is snort able to block intrusions or is it just a logger??

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    I'm pretty sure that snort will just log all intrusions, and suspicious activity on the network. You just have right a rule, for what you want it to alert you to.
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    so i will just log and not stop an attack.
    one more question, does snort log all the packets or just the suspicous ones.

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    Snort logs activity based on the defined rulesets....you can create custom rules if you wish...

    everything you need to know is here: http://www.snort.org/docs/

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    It will only log what it considers an attack. I'm sure you can set it to log whatever you want. I think they have rules that are updated for download to define an attack. Basically it logs what you tell it to log.

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    It should just log suspicious packets and activity in general, although I am sure you could modify the source code quite easily so that it would log everything, or perhaps modify the rules of it.

    I don't think you want it to log all packets, without atleast a log of just the suspicious ones. Reviewing it will be a pain.
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    i know i could creat rules, but will they stop the attacks or just detect them??

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    Just detect them. Basically you will just get an alert that you are being attacked. Then you have to figure out for yourself how to stop it. I recommend pulling your network cable, or the plug from the wall. Then that attack is logged:
    1.11 Does Snort log the full packets that it generates alerts?

    Yes, the packets should be in the directory that has the same IP address as the
    source host of the packet which generated the alert. If you are using binary
    logging, there will be a packet capture file (.pcap) in the logging directory
    instead.

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    There are addons to make snort actively respond to alerts. I would be a bit leary of them though...
    http://www.chaotic.org/guardian/
    http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature...e-printer.html

    Seems to me that this system could be fooled by false positives, and essentially create a denial of service. I have not looked into it very closely though.

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    snort is an IDS (Intrusion Detection System) It detects intrusions. To stop them, you use a firewall, like ipchains or something along those lines.
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