Re: IDS on a Token Ring world

From: Drew (simonis@myself.com)
Date: 06/04/02 

Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 13:14:53 -0400
From: Drew <simonis@myself.com>
To: focus-ids@securityfocus.com

L0rd DarkF0rce wrote:
>
> Does anyone has any pointer on how to implement NIDS on a Token Ring
> Network?
>

What is the issue you are thinking you have? Remember, the IDS
will be looking at layer three traffic, and that traffic is the
same regardless of the lower layer stuff. I used to work on a
TR network, and we had Cisco Netrangers with token ring
interfaces, right from the factory.

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