snort

Install command:

brew install snort

Flexible Network Intrusion Detection System

https://www.snort.org

License: GPL-2.0-only

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/snort.json

Formula code: snort.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:


Apple Silicon	sonoma	✅
	ventura	✅
	monterey	✅
Intel	sonoma	✅
	ventura	✅
	monterey	✅
	64-bit linux	✅

Current versions:

stable	✅	3.1.84.0
head	⚡️	HEAD

Depends on:

daq	3.0.14	Network intrusion prevention and detection system
gperftools	2.15	Multi-threaded malloc() and performance analysis tools
hwloc	2.10.0	Portable abstraction of the hierarchical topology of modern architectures
libdnet	1.18.0	Portable low-level networking library
libpcap	1.10.4	Portable library for network traffic capture
luajit	2.1.1713773202	Just-In-Time Compiler (JIT) for the Lua programming language
openssl@3	3.3.0	Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
pcre	8.45	Perl compatible regular expressions library
xz	5.4.6	General-purpose data compression with high compression ratio
vectorscan	5.4.11	High-performance regular expression matching library

Depends on when building from source:

cmake	3.29.2	Cross-platform make
flex	2.6.4	Fast Lexical Analyzer, generates Scanners (tokenizers)
pkg-config	0.29.2	Manage compile and link flags for libraries

For snort to be functional, you need to update the permissions for /dev/bpf*
so that they can be read by non-root users. This can be done manually using:
sudo chmod o+r /dev/bpf*
or you could create a startup item to do this for you.

Analytics:

Installs (30 days)
`snort`	356
Installs on Request (30 days)
`snort`	356
Build Errors (30 days)
`snort`	0
Installs (90 days)
`snort`	986
`snort --HEAD`	1
Installs on Request (90 days)
`snort`	986
`snort --HEAD`	1
Installs (365 days)
`snort`	4,015
`snort --HEAD`	5
Installs on Request (365 days)
`snort`	4,013
`snort --HEAD`	5

Homebrew Formulae

snort