I don't like the bridge approach because if you have many vlans it become
very complicated.

I always use the router approach because I can configure the IDS for one
interface and IPS for another.

If you don't have enough IP addresses, you can use invalid IP on firewall
WAN and create a route on your router to reach your range.
On Sep 29, 2014 7:31 PM, "Jeronimo L. Cabral" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear, do I have to have 3 network interfaces or 2 interfaces are enough to
> implement the IPS??? Because I think I'll have 1 promiscuos WAN, 1
> promiscuos LAN and 1 management.
>
> The Pfsense firewall has to be setup as BRIDGE if  want to put it between
> the router and the corporate firewall ???
>
> Special thanks,
>
> JeLo
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 5:35 PM, compdoc <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> > Here is a good place to start regarding Suricata or Snort.
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.linux.org/threads/suricata-the-snort-replacer-part-1-intro-install.4346/
>>
>>
>> Is the free to use version of Snort going away? I scanned the page
>> mentioned above but it seems unclear.
>>
>>
>>
>> Suricata sounds like an excellent replacement given the advanced
>> features, but I have to say Snort is doing a fine job for us.
>>
>>
>>
>> I use the free Registered User rules and the free Emerging Threats rules,
>> and Snort is busy blocking port scans and all kinds of activity, while not
>> bothering/blocking our user's activity.
>>
>>
>>
>> Not that we rely solely on Snort - no unnecessary ports are listening to
>> the web. No management ports like 22 are open.
>>
>>
>>
>> Anyway, Snort doesn’t use much cpu time for our 30 user office, and
>> pfSense makes it (kinda) easy to use. Until Suricata arrives for pfSense, I
>> think its fine.
>>
>>
>>
>> By the way, if you have a decent speed quad-core server with at least 8GB
>> ram, you can easily run pfSense, Suricata, and whatever else side by side
>> in virtual machines.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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