Installing Snort in Windows Server 2008 is a fairly straight forward maneuver. Simply install winpcap, then barnyard and then snort itself. You’ll also want to install the snort rules available on the snort downloads page.

Once snort is installed, it’s fairly simple to run it from the Windows Server 2008 command line. To do so, use the snort.exe that was distributed in the installer (by default it would be at c:\snort\bin\snort.exe). You can then run it in a simple form to check that the interfaces are available:

c:\snort\bin\snort.exe -W

And then use one of the listed interfaces, invoke it with a -i option followed by the interface. You can also specify a custom logging location using -l and a custom configuration file using -c. This would result in something similar to the following:

c:\snort\bin\snort.exe -i 1 -l c:\snort\log -c c:\snort\etc\snort.conf

There are a lot more options, but this article is about converting it into a service. Once you’ve found a configuration that works for you manually, you can then take that, throw a /SERVICE /INSTALL after the snort.exe but before the operators and viola you’ve converted snort into a service:

c:\snort\bin\snort.exe /SERVICE /INSTALL -i 1 -l c:\snort\log -c c:\snort\etc\snort.conf

Once snort has become a service, many will want to have it start automatically. This is possible using the sc command to configure the snortsvc to start automatically:

sc config snortsvc start= auto

And then, start her up:

sc start snortsvc

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defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool true

Once you’ve done that go into restore mode in iTunes (option-click the Restore button) and choose the ipcc file you just downloaded.

Alternatively you can just click on this link from your iPhone to run through a quick generator to enable tethering. Doing so will generate a property list file with a .mobileconfig extension, similar to what you create in the iPhone Configuration Utility (if you’re like me you’ll want to see what this thing is doing before you cut it loose). Because the file is compatible with the iPhone Configuration Utility, you can actually download it onto your computer and double-click on it to add it into the iPhone Configuration Utility library and see which keys the payload will install. You can also open with your favorite plist-friendly editor and view the keys directly.