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Hi Paari, You saw many good replies on tools and methodologies. Another important aspect in testing is to measure the performance and ensure that it satisfies the target network requirements. Many IPS vendors tend to give UDP performance numbers. It is a good metric which provides the capability of hardware and software. But, any typical network will not have just UDP traffic. Hence, you need to test and evaluate IPS/IDS with respect to different protocols such as HTTP, SIP, RTP, FTP, SMTP, IMAP, POP3 etc.. Typical metrics one would like to get for each protocol is - Throughput, Connection rate, Latency and jitter. IXIA and SmartBits are some of the commercial boxes you can use to measure these. Thanks Srini -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paari Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 12:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: To test IPS/IDS box. Hi guys, Can you please give me some reference or links on how to test IPS/IDS hardware box. Thanks, Paari -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/To-test-IPS-IDS-box.-tp17053955p17053955.html Sent from the IDS (Intrusion Detection System) mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Test Your IDS Is your IDS deployed correctly? Find out quickly and easily by testing it with real-world attacks from CORE IMPACT. Go to http://www.coresecurity.com/index.php5?module=Form&action=impact&campaign=in tro_sfw to learn more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ******************************************************************************** This email message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately notify the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you. Intoto Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Test Your IDS Is your IDS deployed correctly? Find out quickly and easily by testing it with real-world attacks from CORE IMPACT. Go to http://www.coresecurity.com/index.php5?module=Form&action=impact&campaign=intro_sfw to learn more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
