Description

External data acquisition module for Snort which reads directly from an Endace DAG card.

Requirements

• Endace DAG SDK (available with the purchase of an Endace DAG card)
• Snort DAQ libraries

Installation

• Compile and install Endace SDK.
• Compile and install Snort DAQ libraries. (Version 1.1 or 2.x should work.)
• Clone this repository or download and extract the zip archive file.
• Configure and compile

    autoreconf -ivf
    ./configure
    make
    make install

• Add the configuration items to snort.conf

    config daq: endace
    config daq_dir: /usr/local/lib/daq
    config daq_mode: passive

Caveats

• This code has been somewhat tested.

Thanks

• Randy Caldejon at packetchaser.org for authoring the Napatech DAQ module
• Brian Trammell at Carnegie Mellon for authoring the YAF DAG code
• Endace for authoring tons of documentation
• Jason Ish for some much needed updates and corrections

License

Copyright (c) 2018 William Allison

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.