Comprehensive
A comprehensive tutorial on Snort, the open source IDS. I especially like the author's casual, informal, tone, it feels like he is talking with you. I really liked the "enterprise" uses of Snort, not just on the home DSL connection.I noticed some other reviewers had problems installing MySQL. If you type in the commands exactly as they are in the book, you must the verison of MySQL used in the book, 3.23.52. This version is somewhat burried on the website. If you type these exact commands, without making use of any common sense, the latest version of MySQL the source compile will fail. As most open source applications change rapidly, I didnt find this to be a major stumbling block, and got on to the Snort content quickly.