On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Ed Vance wrote to mark lewis:

 ml> no sir... it is one of the intrusion detection packages i use
 ml> on my perimeter firewall to protect my internal networks ;)

 ml>   https://www.google.com/search?q=snort

 ml> you have to compile it for your system and it is not something
 ml> that can just be thrown into service and expected to work...
 ml> there's a lot of work to tuning it for one's network traffic
 ml> and activities... especially when it can generate thousands of
 ml> alerts in seconds depending on ones traffic ;)

 EV> Mark,

 EV> All I can say is WHEW!

i agree!

 EV> Something like that would fill up my 250GB HD INSTANTLY!

nah... the firewall i work with has a development image as well as a
standard production image... the production image is used on one's live
perimeter... the development image one uses for creating mods or compiling
new binaries and packaging them for installation on the production
systems... my development image is installed on a measly 40G HD... my main
production system only has a 13G HD in it ;)

 EV> I'll pass on Snort.

i don't blame you... you've come a long way but learning about snort and
the depths of the details in each itty-bitty network packet that is
carrying your data around can be quite overwhelming... i regularly see
folks wanting to use my mod with snort and then they give up because they
can't figure out if the alerts they are seeing are bad alerts that need to
be blocked or if they are just normal stuff that flys along on the wire...
i'm still learning as well and have learned a whole lot since i started
maintaining my mod ;)

 EV> BTW I replaced the CMOS battery in the XP box just now so the
 EV> problems I have been having with the time ought to be over.

excellent... finally found another tuit? or did'ja just use the battery as
one since it is round ;)

 EV> The old 2032 battery didn't even give a reading on my RS Battery
 EV> tester.

sounds like it was D.E.A.D.

 EV> A few weeks ago I did look inside the 486 box with the HOT409 MB.
 EV> IIRC the Clock battery was a NI-MH.

that's just the formula... it may still be in the shape of a 2032 for instance...

 EV> I figured out that VL-BUS MB is Version 2 by looking at the MB and
 EV> comparing the Jumper with the drawings for V1 and V2.
 EV> The V2 jumper socket has another space for a pin IIRC.

that's one way to tell... they're not all that easy, though... on
batteries, the main thing is that you provide the same voltage capabilities
and get the polarity right... other than that, any battery will do as long
as you can connect the wires to the drain...

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