How To Install libnids on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnids
on CentOS 7.
What is libnids
Libnids is an implementation of an E-component of Network Intrusion Detection System. It emulates the IP stack of Linux 2.x and offers IP defragmentation, TCP stream assembly and TCP port scan detection. Using libnids, one has got a convenient access to data carried by a TCP stream, no matter how artfully obscured by an attacker.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libnids
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libnids.
Install libnids on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libnids
using yum
by running the following command:
Install libnids on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libnids
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libnids on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libnids
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnids
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.