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Dear Experts:<br />
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I am having rhel5.5 installed snort for IDS and also downloaded the rules i,e snortrules-snapshot-2900.t<wbr />ar.gz and an md5 file can anybody please help me step by step how to do the md5 check.<br />
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Thanks in advance.
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Dear Experts:

I am having rhel5.5 installed snort for IDS and also downloaded the rules i,e snortrules-snapshot-2900.tar.gz and an md5 file can anybody please help me step by step how to do the md5 check.

Thanks in advance.

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