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Suricata is a next generation IDS/IPS engine developed by the Open Information Security Foundation.

This article describes the installation, setup and usage of Suricata with CUDA support on a Ubuntu 10.04 64bit. For 32 bit users, simply remove 64 occurances where you find them.

Preparation

You need to download both Developper driver and Cuda driver from nvidia website. I really mean both because Ubuntu nvidia drivers are not working with CUDA.

I’ve first downloaded and installed CUDA toolkit for Ubuntu 9.04. It was straightforward:

sudo sh cudatoolkit_3.0_linux_64_ubuntu9.04.run

To install the nvidia drivers, you need to disconnect from graphical session and close gdm. Thus I’ve done a CTRL+Alt+F1 and I’ve logged in as normal user. Then I’ve simply run the install script:

sudo stop gdm

sudo sh devdriver_3.0_linux_64_195.36.15.run

sudo modprobe nvidia

sudo start gdm

After a normal graphical login, I was able to start working on suricata build

Suricata building

I describe here compilation of 0.9.0 source. To do so, you can get latest release from OISF download page and extract it to your preferred directory:

wget http://openinfosecfoundation.org/download/suricata-0.9.0.tar.gz

tar xf suricata-0.9.0.tar.gz

cd suricata-0.9.0

Compilation from git should be straight forward (if CUDA support is not broken) by doing:

git clone git://phalanx.openinfosecfoundation.org/oisf.git

cd oisf

./autogen.sh

Configure command has to be passed options to enable CUDA:

./configure –enable-debug –enable-cuda –with-cuda-includes=/usr/local/cuda/include/ –with-cuda-libraries=/usr/local/cuda/lib64/ –enable-nfqueue –prefix=/opt/suricata/ –enable-unittests

After that you can simply use

make

sudo make install

Now you’re ready to run.

Running suricata with CUDA support

Let’s first check, if previous step were correct by running unittests:

sudo /opt/suricata/bin/suricata -uUCuda

It should display a bunch of message and finish with a summary:

==== TEST RESULTS ====

PASSED: 43

FAILED: 0

======================

Now, it is time to configure Suricata. To do so we will first install configuration file in a standard location:

sudo mkdir /opt/suricata/etc

sudo cp suricata.yaml classification.config /opt/suricata/etc/

sudo mkdir /var/log/suricata

classification-file: /opt/suricata/etc/classification.config

sudo tcpdump -s0 -i br0 -w Desktop/br0.pcap

sudo /opt/suricata/bin/suricata -c /opt/suricata/etc/suricata.yaml -r /home/eric/Desktop/br0.pcap