Guardent To Sell Snort And Nessus

Cally writes: "An interesting article appeared on the Info-Sec News list the other day about Guardent's new security appliance. Based on Snort, Nessus and IPTables, Guardent are taking the unusal step of trying to sell a product based on Free software into the highly resistant corporate security market. Although Free/Open security software is widely acknowledged to be better than commercial alternatives, it's rarely been trusted in the enterprise - the article points out that, although the NSA use Free software, the need for an expensive government audit prevents the government from saving money and improving security."

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Re:FreeBSD network Stack

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

It's not quite right to refer to the Windows IP stack as FreeBSD.

Like almost every IP implementation, the one in Win32 is heavily based on the Berkeley Net4 code. This is hardly surprising. The Berkeley implementation was TCP/IP - long before ther were others. Large blocks of the original Berkeley Net code appear to be copied unmodified in the NT/2000/XP system. This is probably true of AIX, Solaris, etc...

This is a feature of the Berkeley licence.