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Re: BlackICE IDS


From: mjr () nfr net (Marcus J. Ranum)
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 22:06:57 -0500



Greg Shipley writes:

2. I would encourage anyone who is doing testing to get as close to REAL
traffic as possible. 

As a vendor, let me comment that Greg's 100% right! We tell our
customers the same thing. You gotta see what'll work in your
live environment because it's going to be different than a lab.
You might install an IDS that does reassembly and state tracking
and discover that it doesn't work right because your internal
routing is messed up (accidentally or deliberately). You might
discover all kinds of weirdnesses that would never appear in a
contrived lab environment - some good, some bad.

mjr.
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