Today, I needed to upgrade my snort 2.4 install to 2.6. I heard that it’s heavy on the memory usage.. so I wanted to tread softly here. After doing the initial install, I noticed that snort continually complained about preprocessors (ie: ftp_telnet, frag2, smtp, dcerpc and dns). Not sure why it’s not wanting these. I’ll… Continue reading Snort upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6