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Re: A useful oversimplification for network surveillance?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Thu Aug 25 11:34:08 2005

From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:30:00 GMT
To: hcb@gettcomm.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


Howard,

I'd most certainly use an IDS (i.e. SNORT) for this instead of
netfow....

- ferg

-- "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com> wrote:

      NetFlow is the key to analyzing traffic patterns outside the router,
      looking for DDoS signatures when known, and for traffic anomalies that
      may become DDoS.


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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