Re: [pmacct-discussion] pmacct's place in the network... passive host?

2006-05-01 Thread Paolo Lucente
Hi Duncan, On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:45:24AM -0500, Duncan Shannon wrote: > Can I run pmacct on my (Fedora) system that is seeing all in/out traffic > (for snort) that is on a passive Ethernet tap? Just to fully agree with Sven's reply and to add that both Snort and pmacctd are libpcap-based: t

Re: [pmacct-discussion] pmacct's place in the network... passive host?

2006-04-29 Thread Sven Anderson
Duncan Shannon schrieb: > Is it as easy as downloading and setting it up? I guess the conflicts im > wondering about would be does pmacct care that there is no IP on the > interface and that its in promiscuous mode? The complexity of setting it up depends on the complexity of your needs. But wha

[pmacct-discussion] pmacct's place in the network... passive host?

2006-04-28 Thread Duncan Shannon
Hi- I am trying to get a handle on traffic on a network, which has some old-osh equipment and we cant really cant get what we need/want from our firewall, router etc. I box that was setup to run Snort, with a passive Ethernet tap between our router and firewall. Eth0 is LAN Eth1 is Inbound traff