snort / openvas / cain

installed snort-mysql  / acidbase on debian testing and did a base configuration in 5 minutes; after installing the necassary sql files, i only had to uncomment one line in the snort configfile, set the subnet to scan, define the nic – done. always really impressive what you can do/see with this piece of free software after 10 minutes. also installed a openvas server – it seems like there is no windows client out there. nice so see that the cain & abel toolkit is still under development.   i need these systems for a demo / lecture on wednesday …

edit: the openvas-client using macports under os x works pretty good.

dislike 32bit / M$ operatingsystems

need to sync every day about 1 million files from disk to network share. so far no problem, but the sync application eats up massive amounts of ram – in this case a problem because the ibm x3250 w2k3 32bit machine only got 4gb of ram.  32bit – disused. maybe a solution would be to use an os wich isn`t such a colossal turd…

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