Re: Active response... some thoughts.

[Chris Travers <chris () travelamericas com>]

Thomas;

I was also thinking about a liability from a poorly implimented system 
being able to be used to DOS an address by spoofing packets from that 
address.

I guess I come back to advocating passive solutions primarily.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers

Thomas H. Ptacek wrote:

> On 1/31/03 1:22 PM, "Chris Travers" <chris () travelamericas com> wrote:
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> > An IDS could have hooks into a routers filtering tables in order to
> > temporarily ban that IP address.  This has the advantage of the RST in
> > that all inbound traffic from the attacker would be stopped, but would
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> ACL countermeasures are generally avoided because it is hard to make them
> fail safely. It is not easy to push soft-state ACLs to Cisco and Juniper
> routers; the risk that the IDS could get desynchronized from the filter is
> large.
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