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How to Monitor Network Traffic with Virtualized Bro 2.51 on Ubuntu 16.04.2 on ESXi 6.5

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Feed Name: Black Hills Infosec Blog

Date Published: 2017-08-03

Date Updated: 2026-04-27

Author: BHIS

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This blog-style guide provides a step-by-step walkthrough for deploying Bro (Zeek) on an Ubuntu 16.04 VM in a VMware ESXi environment, including ESXi vSwitch/port group configuration for mirrored traffic, setting the mirror NIC to promiscuous mode, compiling and installing PF_RING and Bro, configuring Bro's node.cfg to use pf_ring and the mirror interface, and enabling auto-start and periodic maintenance; the post begins with a disclaimer that some techniques may be outdated.

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