Re: Project proposal/idea: Categorize traffic by behavior

Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.netfilter.devel,gmane.linux.network.routing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Nov 24 2007 23:52, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
>
> Back in 2003/2004 when finding the topic for my masters thesis, I had a
> secondary project idea, perhaps its about time to do something about the idea,
> and hear if anyone else thinks its a good idea?
>
> The basic idea is to: "Categorize traffic by behavior"
>
A behavior-analyzing project is http://jengelh.hopto.org/p/chaostables/ which
uses TCP initialization behavior observation to figure out netscans and a small
L7 length check to detect version banner grabs (think smtp, ssh).

>
> I propose this could be implemented with Netfilter target modules for
> categorizing traffic, and using conntrack flows for saving the group/type, that
> other rules can match upon.
>
As usual, "patches welcome" ;-)
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