I have such network configured on linuxes virtualized on VMware:

Host1 – Bridge (Snort-IPS installed) – Host2

-The bridge is set on ubuntu where also is installed my IPS (Snort). The bridge function works.
-The Snort also sees these packets and runs in inline mode using afpacket DAQ.
-Snort only producing alerts, but not dropping packets. I know that because using tcpdump on Host2 I see the same packets that Snort is generating at the same time.

I have found some tutorial made by Noah Ditrich in this case. https://sublimerobots.com/2016/02/snort-ips-inline-mode-on-ubuntu/

There is info in this tutorial that there is need to packets flowing through Snort running, not only machine, because this is only way Snort can drop packets.

There is such network interfaces configurations for packets going through Snort(IPS):

#Administrative interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

#First bridged interface
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet manual
up ifconfig $IFACE 0.0.0.0 up
up ip link set $IFACE promisc on
post-up ethtool -K $IFACE gro off
post-up ethtool -K $IFACE lro off
down ip link set $IFACE promisc off
down ifconfig $IFACE down

#Second Bridged Interface
auto eth2
iface eth2 inet manual
up ifconfig $IFACE 0.0.0.0 up
up ip link set $IFACE promisc on
post-up ethtool -K $IFACE gro off
post-up ethtool -K $IFACE lro off
down ip link set $IFACE promisc off
down ifconfig $IFACE down

I need to put the same configuration by Netplan in ubuntu. I have no idea how because Netplan uses different commands.
I hope Snort will be dropping packets if I put Netplan file correctly. If not, I will be looking other solution.