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 > -- The early worm gets the bird. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!
