So does that mean the
Crossbow<http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/>project on
opensolaris does not cater to this kind of requirement yet?
rgds,
dot.yet

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:54 PM, David Edmondson <[email protected]> wrote:

> * [email protected] [2009-06-26 16:56:40]
> > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 5:09 PM, David Edmondson<[email protected]> wrote:
> >> * [email protected] [2009-06-25 23:08:41]
> >>> Can anyone confirm if a xen based domU can be used for snort setup? It
> is
> >>> not for commercial use, rather just SOHO use.
> >>
> >> You can run snort in a guest, but it won't see all of the traffic from
> >> the wire.
> >>
> >> It gets:
> >>    - traffic to its' MAC address,
> >>    - traffic with the multicast bit set in the destination address.
> >>
> >
> > ... and how is this different from a physical server, connected to a
> > switch? Won't the switch filter out packets not intended for mac
> > addresses on a particular port?
>
> Most switches do this, yes. In that case it's usually possible to put a
> switch port into monitor mode, which means that it gets all
> packets. This isn't currently possible with the Solaris VNIC
> implementation.
>
> dme.
> --
> David Edmondson, Sun Microsystems, http://dme.org
>
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