wow. thanks bombay. i have 6509 and recently heard about those ids blades for them. i wasn't so sure about them myself, i would rather have a dedicated ids solution. i was thinking of the cisco ids solution as i am already using cisco routers, firewalls and switches. course, i know the beancounters would be happy for me to save some bucks on a cheap, reliable ids solution

so..i've also been playing with snort, on a win box first, next i'll try it on a red hat box.

the fun NEVER ends.....