Miscellaneous Topics on Snort 3
This chapter covers a variety of different topics that are relevant to Snort 3. We will cover topics such as Snort troubleshooting and debugging, Snort 2 to Snort 3 migration challenges, and more.
Snort 2 has been in use for more than a decade, and there have been millions of downloads of the program over these years. Perhaps you have a working configuration and setup that you would like to migrate as part of upgrading to Snort 3.
Debugging and troubleshooting are key phases of any software, and that is expected to be the case for Snort 3 as well. Such debugging or troubleshooting could be related to testing a signature, or it could be related to verifying the correct functioning of a certain module, or it could be related to performance.
In this chapter, we will discuss these topics and discuss examples to equip you with practical knowledge that will be useful.
The topics we discuss in this chapter are as follows:
- Snort 2 to Snort...