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Firestorm - Network intrusion detection system
Firestorm is an extremely high performance network
intrusion detection system (NIDS). At the moment it just a sensor but
plans are to include real support for analysis, reporting, remote
console and on-the-fly sensor configuration. It is fully pluggable and
hence extremely flexible.
Obtaining
DocumentationUser manpage available in HTML format from http://www.scaramanga.co.uk/firestorm/firestorm-nids.8.html; User manpage for config file available in HTML format from http://www.scaramanga.co.uk/firestorm/firestorm.conf.5.html
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| Interfaces | daemon |
| Source languages | C |
| Weak prerequisites | libpcap, libprelude |
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