A. Bro Installation Guide

Bro was originally funded by a Department of Energy grant at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (LBNL). This Intrusion Detection System (IDS) was built as a network application framework to enable the group at the LBNL to analyze network protocols and how they function. The Bro team has been releasing major versions every 6 to 12 months with minor bug fix versions distributed in between. Bro is designed to run on FreeBSD, Linux, and Mac OS. However, the user following has since ported it to NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris (not Windows!). There are always two versions of the current release of the Bro code: a stable version and development adaptation. The stable version is used in production environments and is available via ...

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