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Firestorm - Network intrusion detection system

Firestorm is an extremely high performance network intrusion detection system (NIDS). At the moment it just a sensor but plans are to include real support for analysis, reporting, remote console and on-the-fly sensor configuration. It is fully pluggable and hence extremely flexible.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.scaramanga.co.uk/firestorm/
Source tarballhttp://www.scaramanga.co.uk/firestorm/v0.5.4/firestorm-0.5.4.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://www.scaramanga.co.uk/firestorm/download.html
Version 0.5.4 (beta) released on 2003-08-03
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User manpage available in HTML format from http://www.scaramanga.co.uk/firestorm/firestorm-nids.8.html; User manpage for config file available in HTML format from http://www.scaramanga.co.uk/firestorm/firestorm.conf.5.html
Support contacts

Help List<firestorm@scaramanga.co.uk> <firestorm-subscribe@scaramanga.co.uk> body: blank message
Developer List<firestorm@scaramanga.co.uk> <firestorm-subscribe@scaramanga.co.uk> body: blank message
Bug List<firestorm@scaramanga.co.uk> <firestorm-subscribe@scaramanga.co.uk> body: blank message

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Interfacesdaemon
Source languagesC
Weak prerequisiteslibpcap, libprelude

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-08-05
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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