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+Libnids is an implementation of an E-component of Network Intrusion Detection
+System. It emulates the IP stack of Linux 2.0.x. Libnids offers IP
+defragmentation, TCP stream assembly and TCP port scan detection. The most
+valuable feature of libnids is reliability. A number of tests were conducted,
+which proved that libnids predicts behaviour of protected Linux hosts as
+closely as possible. Libnids is highly configurable in run-time and offers a
+convenient interface. Currently it compiles on Linux, *BSD and Solaris.
+Using libnids, one has got a convenient access to data carried by a TCP
+stream, no matter how artfully obscured by an attacker.
+
+This requires libnet.