"Once you've confirmed that Snort can run on your customer's hardware, and ensured that the proper software for Snort has been installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to support Snort, the next step is to download Snort, then configure, make and install the package with MySQL. This is necessary before you can configure Snort by setting up its network intrusion detection rules.
"To compile Snort you will need to have the standard C development and build tools installed on your host. You can always remove these tools after compilation to ensure they can't be used inappropriately. Download the Snort source code package..."
