Running Snort 3 on multiple VLANs

Oren Kirchhoff via Snort-users <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:20:15 +0000
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Hello everyone!

I am new to Snort 3 and we are preparing to build Snort Servers to monitor =
a few different VLANs that are on their own network interface.  We will hav=
e this same setup at about 3 other sites and that data will be sent to a Wa=
zuh server.  When configuring snort 3 to passively monitor each network int=
erface/VLAN, should we run one instance of snort and have it monitor the th=
ree different VLANs, or should we have a separate instance for each VLAN?

Oren Kirchhoff

- Computer Services - Information Security Specialist
- Phone: 660-263-4100 x11348
- Email: [email protected]

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<p class=3D"MsoNormal">I am new to Snort 3 and we are preparing to build Sn=
ort Servers to monitor a few different VLANs that are on their own network =
interface.&nbsp; We will have this same setup at about 3 other sites and th=
at data will be sent to a Wazuh server.&nbsp;
 When configuring snort 3 to passively monitor each network interface/VLAN,=
 should we run one instance of snort and have it monitor the three differen=
t VLANs, or should we have a separate instance for each VLAN?&nbsp;
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