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Re: future of IDS
From: Gigi Sullivan <sullivan () seclab com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:30:10 +0200 (CEST)
Hello to all ;) On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Colin Campbell wrote:
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:24:24 +1000 (EST) From: Colin Campbell <sgcccdc () citec qld gov au> To: firewall-wizards () nfr net Subject: future of IDS Hi, (may show some ignorance here so be gentle :-) Our firewall sits between two networks. The "external" houses lots of internet-visible web servers, much as one would expect. The internal net houses intranet servers. Up until recently, these nets were just plain old hubs. They also suffered from consistent 10% collision rates. Everyone was hurting. Consequently, we replaced these hubs with switches. Network performance is great. No collisions, the machines that can talk at 100Mb do, all is well with the world. Well, almost. I tried snooping some traffic between two machines and when I saw nothing, the difference between hubs and switches suddenly dawned on me. Now, after all this preamble, I do actually have a question for the great minds to ponder. With the likelihood that more and more hubs are going to disappear and be replaced by switches, where does that leave the humble
Uhm why are you saying so ? HUBs and swithes are not really the same things. Sometimes you need HUB, sometime you need switch, imho.
IDS that can no longer see all the traffic it needs to, to do its job?
I really don't remember the 'technical word', however you can configure a switch's port to 'grabb' all the traffic that pass through the other ports, hence acting like a 'one port' HUB.
Colin
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