Index Snort Command Line Summary and Usage Snort has an extensive set of features and command line options. A sample of the basic command line options are summarized in the following following table. Type of alerting to the alert file Full mode, normal mode. Log packets in tcpdump format. Turn off logging.
Alerts still function normally.
Turn off promiscuous mode sniffing. Will caused slowdown and possible packet loss. Show the usage summary and exit. Also, two very valuable features are the support for filters and rules. Filters allow the program to be tailored for specific needs such as monitoring a single host computer or subnet.