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

[Christopher B. <bla...@um...>]

There are small integrated computers made by IBT out of Canada that have 
this feature.  They are roughly $300 for a 1ghz passively cooled box 
with 128mb RAM, 4 10/100 NICs, and a 20gb hard drive.  The first two 
NICs on the board have relays that fail to closed acting as a 
pass-through when the box loses power.  Overall the boxes are extremely 
well-made, and I can recommend them heartily.

Richard Compton wrote:
> 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.
> 
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> 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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