SURICATA(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       SURICATA(8)

NAME

       suricata - Next Generation Intrusion Detection and Prevention Tool

SYNOPSIS

       suricata [options]

DESCRIPTION

       suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System (IDS). It is based on rules (and is fully compatible with snort rules) to detect a variety
       of attacks / probes by searching packet content.

       This new Engine supports Multi-Threading, Automatic Protocol Detection (IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, HTTP, TLS, FTP and  SMB),  Gzip  Decompression,
       Fast IP Matching and coming soon hardware acceleration on CUDA and OpenCL GPU cards.

       It supports acquiring packets through NFQUEUE, PCAP (live or offline) etc.

OPTIONS

       -c config_file
	      Use configuration file config_file

       -i interface
	      Sniff packets on interface.

       -r file
	      Read  the tcpdump-formatted file tcpdump-file.  This will cause Suricata to read and process the file fed to it.	This is useful for
	      offline analysis.

       -q queue_id
	      Sniff packets sent by the kernel through NFQUEUE. This allows running Suricata in inline mode (IPS) for packets captured by iptables
	      using the NFQUEUE target.

       -s signatures
	      Path to the signatures file.

       -l log_dir
	      Path to the default log directory.

       -D     Run as daemon

       --init-errors-fatal
	      Enable fatal failure on signature init error.

SEE ALSO

       tcpdump(1), pcap(3).

AUTHOR

       suricata was written by the Open Information Security Foundation.

       This manual page was written by Pierre Chifflier <pollux@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

								   February 2010						       SURICATA(8)