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The IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks 30th Anniversary (LCN'05)l
Defining and Evaluating Greynets (Sparse Darknets)
Sydney, Australia
November 15-November 17
ISBN: 0-7695-2421-4
Warren Harrop, Swinburne University of Technology
Grenville Armitage, Swinburne University of Technology

Darknets are increasingly being proposed as a means by which network administrators can monitor for anomalous, externally sourced traffic. Current darknet designs require large, contiguous blocks of unused IP addresses - not always feasible for enterprise network operators. In this paper we introduce, define and evaluate the concept of a Greynet - a region of IP address space that is sparsely populated with 'darknet' addresses interspersed with active (or 'lit') IP addresses. We use raw traffic traces collected within a university network to evaluate how sparseness affects a greynet's effectiveness and hence show that enterprise operators can achieve useful levels of network scan detection, with only small numbers of 'dark' IP addresses making up their greynets.

Citation:
Warren Harrop, Grenville Armitage, "Defining and Evaluating Greynets (Sparse Darknets)," lcn, pp.344-350, The IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks 30th Anniversary (LCN'05)l, 2005
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