What is ECN? Is it the reason SNORT has started this lately:
<snip>
Active System Attack Alerts
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
May 22 10:11:18 pooh snort: spp_portscan: PORTSCAN DETECTED from 199.183.24.194
(STEALTH)
May 22 10:11:22 pooh snort: spp_portscan: portscan status from 199.183.24.194: 1
connections across 1 hosts: TCP(1), UDP(0) STEALTH
</snip>
See ya,
Joe Barr
On Tue, 22 May 2001 10:57:34 -0400
David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 10:18 AM 5/22/01, Steve Modica wrote:
>
>
> >Perhaps it's none of my business, but it doesn't seem very sporting to
> >just turn something on that breaks stuff and say "you had fair
> >warning". Why not shut it back off, issue a statement saying it works
> >now and will be re-enabled on June 10th or something, and everyone must
> >do thus and so or they will break on that day?
> >
> >Vague things like "it'll be turned on real soon now" or ASAP really mean
> >"never" since admins always have things with real deadlines at the top
> >of their list.
>
>
> I'd suggest something like:
>
> Final Warning. ECN is being turned on NOW. If your firewall doesn't
> support ECN, this will be the last message that gets through to you from us.
>
> Such a message will have the interesting characteristic of being the last
> message received. This will make it obvious why no further messages are
> arriving.
>
> David
>
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