[177836] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Re: Checkpoint IPS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darden, Patrick)
Fri Feb 6 11:44:27 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Darden, Patrick" <Patrick.Darden@p66.com>
To: Colin Johnston <colinj@gt86car.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 16:44:14 +0000
In-Reply-To: <BB2423BA-C9A4-4873-B592-4753C05749DB@gt86car.org.uk>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Sorry, didn't mean to imply otherwise. Had an incident back in ~2004 where=
an IPS signature update closed ALL network traffic. Including fix-it upda=
tes. Definitely a case where the IPS caused major difficulties for a netwo=
rk.
--p
-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Johnston [mailto:colinj@gt86car.org.uk]=20
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 10:32 AM
To: Darden, Patrick
Cc: Colin Johnston; Roland Dobbins; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: Checkpoint IPS
Thought I would add
Astaro IPS works great, great functionality and does prevent ddos and explo=
its.
Colin
