I don't agree with you either.
My opinion, is that if you have a good default deny firewall ruleset,
you can eliminate most of the threats.
Again, scans are (mostly) harmless.
Deploying a NIDS could give you false sence of security.  

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:52:36 +0400
"Wesley M." <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm not agree,
> 
> Using PF, and only PF, we can feed a table using some parameters and
> it is filtered on one/several ports.
> 
> PF can't detect Network scan like nmap or ... So it is why i use
> scanlogdb (it is in the OpenBSD Ports).
> And some people use Snort also for this kind of things. 
> 
> PF is a good firewall, we can play with QoS/IP,Ports filter/NAT/ Src
> NAT/ Statefull/Load Balancing/scrub
> But it is not a NIDS. ;-)
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Wesley M.
> 
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:05:33 +0300, Gregory Edigarov
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I think it is bad practice to use something that's not even in the
> > base, when you have the feature in pf readily available.
> > 
> > pass in on vr0 inet proto tcp from any to (vr0) port ssh keep state
> > \ (max-src-conn-rate 1/60, overload <badhosts> flush global)
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:04:09 +0400
> > "Wesley M." <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> >> I added this :
> >> 
> >> in pf.conf
> >> ...
> >> table <black> persist file "/etc/black"
> >> ...
> >> block quick from <black>
> >> ...
> >> 
> >> Added to crontab
> >> pfctl -t black -T add $(cat /var/log/alert | awk '{print $6}')
> >> 
> >> What do you think about that ?
> >> Perhaps, you have easiest way to do it ?
> >> Now i'm looking for a small web monitor to view alerts provided by
> >> scanlogd. Any idea ?
> >> 
> >> cheers,
> >> 
> >> Wesley.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:31:35 +0400, "Wesley M."
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > Hi, 
> >> > 
> >> > I use OpenBSD 4.9, i'm looking for a good nids. 
> >> > 
> >> > I found
> >> > "scanlogd" in ports, works very well. 
> >> > 
> >> > But is there a way to work this
> >> > last one with pf ? For example add the ip-address detected by
> >> > scanlogd
> >> to a
> >> > "Blacklist" table ? 
> >> > 
> >> > Also, is there a way to have a web monitor to view
> >> > alert? 
> >> > 
> >> > Perhaps, you use something else ... what ? ;-) snort ? 
> >> > 
> >> > Thank you
> >> > very much ! 
> >> > 
> >> > All the best, 
> >> > 
> >> > Wesley.

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