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From the project home page:

  Suricata is a high performance Network IDS, IPS and Network Security Monitoring engine. Open Source and owned by a community run non-profit foundation, the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF). Suricata is developed by the OISF and its supporting vendors.

## Installation

Install suricataAUR from the AUR.

## Configuration

The main configuration file is `/etc/suricata/suricata.yaml`.

You should change the following parts of the configuration in order to make it run:

      default-log-dir: /var/log/suricata/     # where you want to store log files
      classification-file: /etc/suricata/classification.config
      reference-config-file: /etc/suricata/reference.config
      HOME_NET: "[10.0.0.0/8]"                # your local network
      host-os-policy:   ..                    # according to the OS running the ips
      magic-file: /usr/share/file/misc/magic.mgc

## Web interface

You may use Scirius CE [1] or SELKS [2] as web interface for rule management, log analysis, and other sensor management options.

## Starting Suricata

### Manual startup

You may start the suricata service manually with: `# /usr/bin/suricata -c /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml -i eth0`

### systemd service configuration

To start Suricata automatically at system boot, enable `suricata.service`.

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