Comparing the performance of two IDS products with different architectures

From: iheagwarac@aol.com
Date: 10/13/01 

From: iheagwarac@aol.com
Message-ID: <36.1d127b64.28fa03ba@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 16:53:14 EDT
Subject: Comparing the performance of two IDS products with different architectures
To: focus-ids@securityfocus.com

Does anyone know if there is justification to compare the performance of IDS
products with pattern-matching technique with those IDS products that use
the state-based (protocol analysis)technique in the same network environments?

What will be the strenght of the arguments?
 
Charles