IDS Datasets

[trantichphuoc () yahoo com]

Hi there,
I am a newbie in this forum. I am more concerned on Auritficial Intelligence (Machine Learning) techniques rather than 
the IDS itself. However, I would like to test some machine learning techniques (Neural Networks, ...) in the domain of 
IDS, i.e. use AI to analyse some available datasets of intrusions. 
I found the IDS data published by MIT & DARPA (http://www.ll.mit.edu/IST/ideval/) which is quite wellknown I suppose. I 
have the following questions:
1. This dataset was published since 1999, which is quite long time ago. However, since then, there is no other 
"wellknown" dataset of IDS published. I would like to ask if there is some good IDS datasets (ready for AI techniques) 
but I am not aware of? 
2. What is tcp-dump? What I got from the DARPA dataset was a text file with several lines, each line has several 
attributes separated by commas. How an IDS can understand this text file? I am confusing between the AI-ready datasets 
(text files that are preprocessed) and the files generated originally from a real IDS.
Thanks
Patrick Tran

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