IDS: Re: High availability design of NIDS

[Jon Hart <warchild () spoofed org>]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:47:03PM -0600, Michael Allgeier wrote:
> OpenBSD + CARP + snort = failover NIDS
Only partially true -- CARP will only allow you to do IP failover.  But
that won't help you if, say, the snort process dies or is otherwise
unreachable. That situation should be fairly rare, but it is something
to consider.

-jon

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