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RE: IPS and Trunking
From: "John Coke" <JCoke () afsimage com>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:28:15 -0600
Cisco does offer an "IPS on a stick" feature and is what the OP is talking about. Its called Inline VLAN Pairs and is documented here (line wraps): http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/iaabu/csids/csids13/clig uide/cliinter.htm#wp1047718 Basically: 1) You create another vlan on the switch (for a total of 2). 2) You convert one of the ports to a trunk port and plug the IPS monitoring port into it. 3) You then take all the access ports and assign them to one VLAN and the port connected to the gateway to the other vlan. 4) You create a vlan pair in the IPS software to bind the 2 vlans together. -John -----Original Message----- From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Andrew Plato Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 11:38 AM To: trav_2 () hotmail com; focus-ids () securityfocus com Subject: RE: IPS and Trunking If you create a mirror port and plug in any IPS/IDS, it will see the traffic. TippingPoint, ISS, etc. All can do that. Also, pretty much any decent managed switch can have mirror ports. This is not unique to Cisco. Keep in mind, you cannot do real-time IPS (intrusion prevention) in any reliable manner this way. You have to be IN-LINE to do real-time blocking and filtering. Passive monitoring off a mirror port only allows you to send RSTs to stop stuff, and that is not a very reliable way to block bad stuff. ___________________________________ Andrew Plato, CISSP, CISM President/Principal Consultant Anitian Enterprise Security -----Original Message----- From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of trav_2 () hotmail com Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 10:44 AM To: focus-ids () securityfocus com Subject: IPS and Trunking Cisco has a great feature where I can configure all traffic on a switch to go to a trunk port, plug in the IPS/IDS to the trunk port and see all traffic. Can other vendors, such as Sourcefire, TippingPoint, ISS do this? Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Test Your IDS Is your IDS deployed correctly? Find out quickly and easily by testing it with real-world attacks from CORE IMPACT. Go to http://www.coresecurity.com/index.php5?module=Form&action=impact&campaig n=intro_sfw to learn more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Test Your IDS Is your IDS deployed correctly? Find out quickly and easily by testing it with real-world attacks from CORE IMPACT. Go to http://www.coresecurity.com/index.php5?module=Form&action=impact&campaig n=intro_sfw to learn more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Test Your IDS Is your IDS deployed correctly? Find out quickly and easily by testing it with real-world attacks from CORE IMPACT. Go to http://www.coresecurity.com/index.php5?module=Form&action=impact&campaign=intro_sfw to learn more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- IPS and Trunking trav_2 (Feb 08)
- RE: IPS and Trunking Andrew Plato (Feb 08)
- Re: IPS and Trunking Eric Hines (Feb 08)
- Re: IPS and Trunking Gary Halleen (Feb 12)
- RE: IPS and Trunking John Coke (Feb 12)
- Re: IPS and Trunking Eric Hines (Feb 08)
- Re: IPS and Trunking Paul daSilva (Feb 08)
- Re: IPS and Trunking Jason (Feb 12)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: IPS and Trunking levinson_k (Feb 08)
- RE: IPS and Trunking Andy Cuff (Feb 08)
- RE: IPS and Trunking Michaelson, Andrew J (Feb 12)
- RE: IPS and Trunking Chris Brown (Feb 12)
- RE: IPS and Trunking Luis Lopez Sanchez (Feb 13)
- Re: RE: IPS and Trunking vijay . upadhyaya (Feb 15)
- RE: IPS and Trunking Andrew Plato (Feb 08)