Re: Detecting Broadcast with Snort

["james" <jamesh () cybermesa com>]

> > > We are interested in installing Snort in our university. But we have 
> > > in doubt about the capability of Snort for detecting excessive 
> > > broadcast and make some corrective action automaticaly. Sometimes we 
> > > have excessive broadcast in our network that provoke a lot of problems.
>
> <snip>
> excessive broadcast?  i think you need to look into tools like netsaint 
> or other network monitoring tool first.
>
> gene yoo
> -- 


The LAST thing you want to do is have something "fix"
broadcast problems on your network. Fix the broadcast
problems at their root cause, don't reach for a "broadcast 
killing app". Talk about provoking ! 

james




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