More of an opinion question here.... maybe someone on here has more experience with this...
I need to come up with an IDS solution. Looking for a few thoughts from the masses. Would I be best off with a custom built Linux solution, or should I go with one of the commercial solutions (Cisco, NetMRI, HP, etc.)
I'm going off of the usual determining factors (reliability, throughput, cost effectiveness, administrative overhead, etc...)

It's for a (quite frankly, excessively used) high traffic connection (Dual redundant T3 upstreams and separate downstreams handled by 3 routers.... yea, the guy before me got it to work and I haven't truly wanted to contemplate the idea of touching that disasterous feat of network WTFWUT =( ) which requires a 99.9% SLA, and it needs to be able to monitor both the primary and redundant connection (also not my idea). It will be between the 3 routers. The 2 routers on the perimeter seperate the i/o's and pipe the merged traffic into the third router.... and I need to park the IDS in the middle.

Any suggestions would be awesome... or someone more persuasive than I talk my CIO into getting an OC1 =D

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