On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, William Warren wrote:
> > I may be off base here. Can't an ips look at the traffic; say on 443 > and figure out whether the traffic is malicious or not? If so then let > it filter it. I know IPS's aren't perfect, but, i would prefer this > router be taken, if available and sensible including network outage or > DDOS, than a hard block. A quick block to mitigate and then an IPS rule and you have an IPS that works on oc-192 SONET links? what about the coming oc-768?