Re: [Snort-inline-users] Help- Snort_inline Single Point of Failure

[Richard C. <ric...@gm...>]

I know that certain commercial IPSs like Proventia have ethernet
interfaces with a relay that fail open when the power is disconnected
to them.  Maybe you could use interfaces like this in your IPS.


On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:48:42 +0800, Yap Sin Hoe <sin...@ex...> wrote:
> Hi Will,
> 
> I agree what you are saying, but in certain circumstances when budget is a
> concern for customer, then we need to work out a solution to fix the budget
> as well as to minimize the downtime.
> 
> Is there a way other than having another redundant box, Snort_inline can
> still allow traffic to pass in the event of power loss or other failures?
> 
> regards
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Will Metcalf [mailto:wil...@gm...]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 1:45 AM
> To: sin...@ex...
> Cc: sno...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Snort-inline-users] Help- Snort_inline Single Point of Failure
> 
> Not really sure what you are asking me here.  Are you asking me if a
> box running snort-inline dies how to get traffic to pass?  The short
> answer is if you don't have redundent connections to whatever network
> segment you are trying to protect you can't do this.  This isn't a
> snort-inline limitation though, this is a network design limitation.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Will
> 
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:59:30 +0800, Yap Sin Hoe <sin...@ex...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Is snort-inline a single point of failure when the box facing hardware
> > failure, for example power supply problem. Any idea how to solve this?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Shyap
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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Thanks,
Rich Compton