Hi all! i'm running openwrt 23.05.0 on rpi3 model b (functionning as a router), and i want to install suricata on it and test its performance. the struggle is when i run opkg update and then opkg install suricata, i had the following error:
Unknown package: 'suricata'.
Collected errors:
* opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package suricata.
so what can i do? thank you so much in advance!!
efahl
March 5, 2024, 9:12pm
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Porting suricata to OpenWrt has been an ongoing project for several years. You can help by working through some of the issues mentioned here:
Anyone want to test for me? Must build from source. This will, at some point, error.. I'll promise it now (rust will do it until I get more testers). I would suggest building outside of your main buildroot.
This requires a decent piece of kit. Running the Emerging-Threats Open and built-in rules, it has a massive RAM footprint on my device.
21556 root 486m S {Suricata-Main} suricata -c /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml -i eth0 -v -D
I do not have an init.d script for it yet - there is n…