On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:45:54AM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote:
I'm wondering what is the best way to detect people doing these things on my end. I realize there are methods to protect myself from people attacking from the outside but I'm not real sure how to pinpoint who is really being loud on the inside.
Any IDS ought to be able to do this. The problem will be figuring out where to connect its taps, and how to provide enough capacity at those points to do so without negatively impacting your overall network performance. You should be lauded for doing this. If all providers did it the Internet would be a much, much safer place.
I did have one somewhat silly question.. if you look at the statistics of a Fast Ethernet port, and it is doing both 2000 pps out, and 2000 pps in (pretty much equal in/out) but hardly any bandwidth at all can anyone think of a single application that would mimic that behavior?
VoIP with a low-rate codec, or some quantitatively similar multimedia or gaming application? -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com "The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is to be abandoned or transcended, there is no problem." - Noam Chomsky