on network monitoring and security - req for monitoring tools

Hi, I'm putting together a book on security*, and wanted some expert input onto network monitoring solutions... http://www.subspacefield.org/security/security_concepts.html Nagios, Net-SNMP, ifgraph, cacti, OpenNMS... any others? Any summaries of when one is better than the other? Any

wanted: WAN connectivity statistics

Hey all, I was wondering if anyone can direct me to information about WAN connectivity statistics. I'd like to get an idea of the typical frequency and length of outages, distribution (is it gaussian?) and any relevant confounding factors (routing stabilization times, network topology issues,

Re: [NANOG] IOS rootkits

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 04:47:02PM +0930, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote: I'm sure it'll be good for a number of security providers to hawk their wares. If the way of running this isn't out in the wild and it's actually dangerous then a pox on anyone who releases it, especially to gain