Firewall Wizards: Shomiti Taps, Cisco Port Mirroring and IDS

[Don Ng <sayhockng () yahoo com>]

 Hello all, just need some assistance on the issue of
Shomiti taps. I have spoken to the vendors but they
had to check ...
 
 I am looking at their Century taps that comes with 4
ports.
 Two ports are used to place the device inline with
the segment to be monitored.

Original
  Router-----Firewall
After
  Router----<P 1> Century TAP <Port 2>---Firewall
                  |         |
                 <P 3>    <P 4>
The vendors advised me that for the other 2 ports, I
was told that each port mirrored out one direction
flow. Eg. Router --->Firewall for Port 3 and 
Firewall---> Router for Port 4.

 From the looks of things I would have to connect both

Port 3 and 4 to another Hub and plugging an network
IDS into that hub.

 Router----<P 1> Century TAP <Port 2>---Firewall
                  |         |
                 <P 3>    <P 4>
                    |      |
                     HUB
                      |----NID-200

Is this the optimal way to put an inline tap.
Cisco port mirroring seems to work fine mirroing
multiple ports to a single port connected to an IDS.

Glad for any help and comments.

 



 
 


 


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