libnids

network monitoring library with TCP/IP reassembly

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  1. Package version
    libnids-1.24p4
  2. Maintainer
    The OpenBSD ports mailing-list

Libnids is a library that provides a functionality of one of NIDS
(Network Intrusion Detection System) components, namely E-component. It means
that libnids code watches all local network traffic, cooks received datagrams
a bit (quite a bit ;)), and provides convenient information on them to
analyzing modules of NIDS. Libnids performs:
a) assembly of TCP segments into TCP streams
b) IP defragmentation
c) TCP port scan detection