regarding Back bone network

[Ashley Thomas]

It could be a private network ( a private LAN ). I don't think it uses 
any other suite other than
good ol' TCP/IP.



Mayank-Bhatnagar wrote:

>hi all,
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>Well this doubt is certainly not specific to any IDS but I just wanted to
>put it to our Bro community.
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>In IDS scenario, we say that the sensors and main IDS server when deployed
>communicate with  each other. Now there is a special term known as
>"backbone network" about which specialists say that the IDS does not rely
>on the underlyting network, so that attackers cannot compromise upon the
>messages transferred by IDS syatem.
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>What could be this back bone network.....it seems to be different from the
>normal TCP/IP...or is it same and a different technique used .....
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>Can anyone throw some light on this topic?
>
>Thanks and regards,
>
>Mayank Bhatnagar
>National Centre for Software Technology,
>Bangalore, India.
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Ashley Thomas