On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 00:27, Greg wrote: > Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 23:23, Greg wrote:
> Is there any way to monitor network traffic > Greg Yes, run "netwatch" on eth0. It beats netstat for monitoring connections. Netstat's place in the overall scheme of things is to monitor ALL (and I mean all) incoming connections to your firewall. Or to your workstation, if it's directly connected. Netstat can show you the bytes in, bytes out, port address, protocol used (udp or tcp), ip address or the FQDN of the incoming connection, the type of service that uses that particular port, all selectable with the arrow keys. Netstat can also log all this information to a file for legal purposes. Anybody that taps one of your ports is recorded in the Netwatch status screen. It's a great tool for monitoring your firewall. The only thing it doesnt do is actually record or analyze incoming packets for what they are actually for; this is an entirely different job and should be done by a util such as snort. If you like netwatch and would like to see it as a part of the contribs given with Mandrake 9.2, please take the time to go to your Mandrakeclub RPM voting page and cast your vote for this great utility so that someone will package it specifically for Mandrake. Right now it's just available as a 386 rpm. The author is Gordon MacKay, this is his website: http://www.slctech.org/~mackay/netwatch.html If you like what you see, email him with some thanks. Not enough people thank the developers these days for their hard work. Firewalls generally should not be running X, therefore it is great that Netwatch uses an ncurses interface. This makes it runnable from the console. There does seem to be a Mandrake rpm available, but this link only offers it for Mandrake version 10 ---- http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/2/simple/2 I've got a request in for a contributor to package it for 9.2 but I don't think it's been done yet. LX
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