Installing Snort on either of those distros (which are Linux, incidentally) is likely to be an awful lot simpler for you than getting it running on OpenBSD. Ok, I have no problem doing that.

I'm trying to install OpenBSD on a SPARC (SS20). I dl'd the files, burned the cd install .iso and booted off of it. To this point, everything works great. When it comes time to install the rest of ...

Installing OpenBSD and configuring IPFilter are the subjects of the next two chapters. The book goes into more detail on installing OpenBSD than it does for Red Hat, including the creation of a boot ...

OpenBSD earned its reputation for being difficult to configure after the install, because what does get installed is minimalist in nature by default.