IDS/IPS testing methodology

[<hakked () yahoo com>]

New to IPS arena and am looking for a documented standard or method for testing IPS technologies in parallel. Have a 
suite of test tools (nessus, IDS Reformer, metasploit, etc.), and we are able to test the NIDS tools fairly well off a 
hub, however I'm now concentrating on how to setup the network to be able to test the IPS's in parallel at the same 
time. This will be an ongoing research project.

-j

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