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Re: SNORT Testing

Subject: Re: SNORT Testing
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:12:55 +0100
sshamay@netvision.net.il wrote:
We are doing some performance tests on “snort” .

Good luck !

The tests are focused on measuring the throughput rates of snort under 
different mixture of traffic (good traffic + a percentage of malicious 
traffic)

"I have no idea which is a good performance measure for an IDS, but I
have an exact idea which ISN'T the right one: packets per second".

I am citing from memory, so I might be wrong, but this is a famous quote
by Marcus Ranum, which I wholeheartedly adhere to.

I need your help, how should be the test environment, which tools to use etc.

<shameless_plug>
You can see some tinkering on the matter from my presentation at Black
Hat Federal:
http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-federal-06/BH-Fed-06-Zanero.pdf
</shameless_plug>

-- 
Cordiali saluti,
Stefano Zanero
Dottorando di Ricerca / Ph.D. Student

Politecnico di Milano - Dip. Elettronica e Informazione
E-mail: zanero@elet.polimi.it
Web:    www.elet.polimi.it/upload/zanero

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