Snort - Separate Sensor and Data Collector Boxes?

[Drew Tomlinson]

I want to learn about Snort and started Googling.  I found a couple of 
docs that indicate I can install Snort on a "sensor" box and then run 
ACID, Apache, MySQL, etc. on a "data collector" box.  Am I understanding 
correctly?

The box I want to use as the "data collector" already has all the 
requirements except ACID.  I used 'portinstall' and it wants to pull in 
Snort as a dependency.  If my understanding above is correct, how can I 
tell the ACID port not to pull in Snort?

Also any recommendations for newbie docs for learning about this would 
be appreciated.

Thanks,

Drew

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