In reading an article link (found on slashdot), NetworkWorld.com "Behind the scenes of MIT’s network" http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/011907-mit-your-take.html?page=1 and then following a Related links teaser from there, NetworkWorld.com "What makes Harvard's net tick" http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/030606-harvard-net.html
In that article, I found an intriguing description of one of their (Harvard's) home-grown tools, now open-sourced: <excerpt> PacketFence is an open source, network-based solution to the problems posed by open academic networks. It provides passive or in-line operation, network registration, worm/bot detection/isolation, user-directed mitigation and proactive vulnerability scans. </excerpt> Looks like a pretty serious tool http://www.packetfence.org/ Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
