Installing suricata on openwrt 23.05.0

[MoonnMoon]

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]

Porting suricata to OpenWrt has been an ongoing project for several years. You can help by working through some of the issues mentioned here:

Suricata 6 for OpenWrt

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…

[guca11]

Hello, based on the work in this forum, i've created the following guide:

How%20to%20build%20OpenWrt%20Image%20with%20Suricata.md

Here there is written all the needed to build an image of OpenWrt 23.05.5 with Suricata 8.0.0
NOTE: in the Suricata's feeds, you can select the default 8.0.0 version or mine (where you can remove, at compile time, the support for protocols)