RE: IPS and Trunking

Cisco does offer an "IPS on a stick" feature and is what the OP is
talking about. Its called Inline VLAN Pairs and is documented here
(line wraps):
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/iaabu/csids/csids13/clig
uide/cliinter.htm#wp1047718

Basically:
1) You create another vlan on the switch (for a total of 2).
2) You convert one of the ports to a trunk port and plug the IPS
monitoring port into it.
3) You then take all the access ports and assign them to one VLAN and
the port connected to the gateway to the other vlan.
4) You create a vlan pair in the IPS software to bind the 2 vlans
together.

-John

-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:listbounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Andrew Plato
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 11:38 AM
To: trav_2@xxxxxxxxxxx; focus-ids@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: IPS and Trunking

If you create a mirror port and plug in any IPS/IDS, it will see the
traffic. TippingPoint, ISS, etc. All can do that.

Also, pretty much any decent managed switch can have mirror ports. This
is not unique to Cisco.

Keep in mind, you cannot do real-time IPS (intrusion prevention) in any
reliable manner this way. You have to be IN-LINE to do real-time
blocking and filtering. Passive monitoring off a mirror port only allows
you to send RSTs to stop stuff, and that is not a very reliable way to
block bad stuff.

___________________________________
Andrew Plato, CISSP, CISM
President/Principal Consultant
Anitian Enterprise Security



-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:listbounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of trav_2@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 10:44 AM
To: focus-ids@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: IPS and Trunking

Cisco has a great feature where I can configure all traffic on a switch
to go to a trunk port, plug in the IPS/IDS to the trunk port and see all
traffic. Can other vendors, such as Sourcefire, TippingPoint, ISS do
this?

Thanks,

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