Re: portsentry
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Sam Varghese wrote:
>This is a bit off-topic. Yesterday I read a piece
>at the following URL:
>
>http://www.linux.ie/articles/portsentryandsnortcompared.php
>
>comparing portsentry and snort.
Next on their list is to compare apples and oranges...
>It is the first time I have read anything negative about
>portsentry.
Other than it's non-free? :)
>Any comments?
Don't believe everything you read on the WWW. Snort is an IDS, portsentry
is a portscan-blocker. They can exist quite nicely together on the same
system, so are obviously not really alternatives.
locutus:~# dpkg -l|grep snort
ii snort 1.7-9 Flexible NIDS (Network Intrusion Detection S
locutus:~# dpkg -l|grep portsentry
ii portsentry 1.0-2 Portscan detection daemon
locutus:~#
Nary a hiccough between them.
>Sam
>
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