there are active/passive IDS's like snort and portsentry, which could be configured to act accordingly when the system is being attacked. however, i have not yet been able to try them out so please take with a grain of salt.
maybe the experienced pluggers could tell you more about them. http://www.snort.org http://linux.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/portsentry.php HTH. :) On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 12:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > has anyone tinkered with the ips (intrusion prevention system) capabilities of > linux? how is it? > > sammy > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie -- -=[mikhail]=- aka Dean Michael C. Berris home +63 49 5680142 mobile +63 919 8720686 homepage http://free.net.ph/Members/mikhailberis blog http://mikhailberis.blogspot.com pgp key ID = 0xF9501761 yahoo_id mikhailberis -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s:+ a--- C++ UL++ P+ L+++ E- W+ N* o K w-- O---- M- V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t+ 5 X+ R+ tv+ b++ DI+ D+ G e h! r+ y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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