RE: Distributed sniffer products

2003-09-04 Thread Dwight Ringdahl
Look at http://www.networkgenomics.net, this product does a sniffer type look at your network and provides conversation views, from both ends. Also traverses firewalls. Dwight -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Austad, Jay Sent: Wednesday, S

Re: Distributed sniffer products

2003-09-04 Thread Greg Maxwell
> Does anyone have a *GOOD* screenrc example config? I was VERY confused by > the info file. > (OT, I know, but...) Here is one we find useful for monitoring the behavior of a firewall: split split screen -t desktop 0 tcpdump -ni desktop not port 22 focus screen -t external 1 tcpdump -ni extern

RE: Distributed sniffer products

2003-09-03 Thread Braun, Mike
EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 1:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Distributed sniffer products The cost benefit analysis on Ethereal/etc vs Sniffer on anything but the smallest of networks is usually very

Re: Distributed sniffer products

2003-09-03 Thread -
Have a look at http://www.isr.net/ Right side, are a bunch of links. cheers, -Bert

RE: Distributed sniffer products

2003-09-03 Thread Brennan_Murphy
: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:50 PM To: Austad, Jay; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Distributed sniffer products Etherial and other libpcap tools work reasonably well, can be easily deployed using commodity hardware, and would cost you a lot less than NetAssoc. Owen --On Wednesday, S

Re: Distributed sniffer products

2003-09-03 Thread Owen DeLong
I haven't had any problems using it without a screenrc. screen -- Starts new session screen -r -- resumes old session (won't steal session if active) screen -r -d -- resumes old session and detaches it if necessary Beyond that, I use ^A-D (detach) and a few other ^A commands, all of which are pret

Re: Distributed sniffer products

2003-09-03 Thread Dominic J. Eidson
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Larry Rosenman wrote: > --On Wednesday, September 03, 2003 15:22:55 -0400 ravi pina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:05:06PM -0700, Luke Starrett said at one point > > in time: > >> SSH works, but it's sometimes nice to have a persistent session that

Re: Distributed sniffer products

2003-09-03 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Wednesday, September 03, 2003 15:22:55 -0400 ravi pina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:05:06PM -0700, Luke Starrett said at one point in time: SSH works, but it's sometimes nice to have a persistent session that I can pick back up later (or from a different PC). Luke

RE: Distributed sniffer products

2003-09-03 Thread Luke Starrett
--Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Owen DeLong > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 12:07 PM > To: Luke Starrett; 'Austad, Jay'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Distributed sniffer products > > > > >&

RE: Distributed sniffer products

2003-09-03 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Luke Starrett wrote: > > > OK... I'll leave the XP thing al0wned. > > Understood... It was a quick (and dirty) solution. > > > As to the linux solution, why would you bother with VNC > > rather than just ssh. Pull the libpcap file back to a local > > desktop for analysi

Re: Distributed sniffer products

2003-09-03 Thread ravi pina
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:05:06PM -0700, Luke Starrett said at one point in time: > > SSH works, but it's sometimes nice to have a persistent session that I > can pick back up later (or from a different PC). > > Luke http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ -r

RE: Distributed sniffer products

2003-09-03 Thread Owen DeLong
OK... I'll leave the XP thing al0wned. Understood... It was a quick (and dirty) solution. How was that any quicker than the same thing running on Linux? (hint: XP install time on P4/1.6Ghz/512MB -> ~2 hours RH8.0 install time on same machine -> ~30 minutes) As to the linux solution, why would y

RE: Distributed sniffer products

2003-09-03 Thread Luke Starrett
> OK... I'll leave the XP thing al0wned. Understood... It was a quick (and dirty) solution. > As to the linux solution, why would you bother with VNC > rather than just ssh. Pull the libpcap file back to a local > desktop for analysis in > ethereal. SSH works, but it's sometimes nice to ha

RE: Distributed sniffer products

2003-09-03 Thread Owen DeLong
OK... I'll leave the XP thing al0wned. As to the linux solution, why would you bother with VNC rather than just ssh. Pull the libpcap file back to a local desktop for analysis in ethereal. Owen --On Wednesday, September 3, 2003 11:26 AM -0700 Luke Starrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I took a

Re: Distributed sniffer products

2003-09-03 Thread Owen DeLong
Etherial and other libpcap tools work reasonably well, can be easily deployed using commodity hardware, and would cost you a lot less than NetAssoc. Owen --On Wednesday, September 3, 2003 1:07 PM -0500 "Austad, Jay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone have any experience with these? I'm looking

RE: Distributed sniffer products

2003-09-03 Thread Luke Starrett
I took a different approach and run a Windows XP machine with multiple network cards to the segments that I regularly need to sniff. I use the remote desktop feature to access the box. It has one NIC for regular connectivity, and a couple others that are just used for sniffing. Others are using

Re: Distributed sniffer products

2003-09-03 Thread George Bakos
A little off topic, but nonetheless: Have a look at Ethereal, an open source network analyzer similar in many respects to Sniffer Pro. http://www.ethereal.com For distributed sniffing / central analysis, you might want to try IDABench, ISTS's pluggable framework for network packet analysis. htt

Re: Distributed sniffer products

2003-09-03 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Austad, Jay wrote: > > Anyone have any experience with these? I'm looking for something similar to > Network Associates Sniffer product. > > Are there any open source projects that are decent? What are others using? we use bro and snort... http://www.snort.org/ http://w