snort

Install command:

brew install snort

Flexible Network Intrusion Detection System

https://www.snort.org

License: GPL-2.0-only

/api/formula/snort.json (JSON API)

/api/bottle/snort.json (Bottle JSON API)

Formula code on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for macOS releases:


Intel	big sur	✅
	catalina	✅
	mojave	✅
	64-bit linux	✅
Apple Silicon	big sur	✅

Current versions:

stable	✅	3.1.14.0
head	⚡️	HEAD

Depends on:

daq	3.0.5	Network intrusion prevention and detection system
gperftools	2.9.1	Multi-threaded malloc() and performance analysis tools
hwloc	2.5.0	Portable abstraction of the hierarchical topology of modern architectures
hyperscan	5.4.0	High-performance regular expression matching library
libdnet	1.14	Portable low-level networking library
libpcap	1.10.1	Portable library for network traffic capture
luajit-openresty	2.1-20210510	OpenResty's Branch of LuaJIT 2
openssl@1.1	1.1.1l	Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
pcre	8.45	Perl compatible regular expressions library
xz	5.2.5	General-purpose data compression with high compression ratio

Depends on when building from source:

cmake	3.21.3	Cross-platform make
flatbuffers	2.0.0	Serialization library for C++, supporting Java, C#, and Go
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`	487
Installs on Request (30 days)
`snort`	487
Build Errors (30 days)
`snort`	0
Installs (90 days)
`snort`	1,260
Installs on Request (90 days)
`snort`	1,259
Installs (365 days)
`snort`	3,727
Installs on Request (365 days)
`snort`	3,702

Homebrew Formulae

snort