On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:17 pm, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:10 pm, Grant wrote: > > How can I see what is happening as far as traffic on my unencrypted > > network? > > tcpdump
ntop is a good network summary program too. Works good if you can run it on your default gateway machine. tcpdump is pretty cool for sure. > > > How can I keep my own http traffic private? > > Use https instead. IPSec is another option, if supported. Also, > traffic is normally only passed along the links between you and the > server, unless there's some hub between you can them. > > You may be able to anonymize normal http by using tor. I think freenet > also provides some level of anonymity and encryption for http, but I've > never used it. > You can only use https on servers that support it. The question is too vague to answer without specifying from who do you want to keep the data private? Just people on your local network? Your ISP? Your boss? The http servers? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
