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brew install snort v3.12.2.0 GPL-2.0-only

Flexible Network Intrusion Detection System

72
30-day installs · #3960
380
90-day · #3216
2.6k
365-day · #2557

Runtime dependencies

daq hwloc jemalloc libdnet libpcap luajit openssl@3 pcre2 vectorscan xz

Build dependencies

cmake flex pkgconf

Links

Caveats

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.
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