What I generally do for basic logging is use a packet sniffer and filter
out the things that I'm not interested in. If you are using NT, you
might try out the NetworkMonitor app that comes with SMS. The older
version of SMS had it, so if you have that around, use it. Otherwise,
you probably know that a non-promiscuous version of NetworkMontitor is
included as part of the NT4 OS. If you are only looking at traffic
that's hitting that particular machine, this should serve your needs.
There are also shareware/3rd party products that can do this with a bit
less overhead: EtherBoy & PacketBoy from NDG Software, and LanTrace from
Intellimax Systems.
Dave Shackelford
IP Network Engineer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(714) 872-2344
'Good, Fast, Cheap. Pick two.'
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Walter Lecossois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at INTERNET1
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 1:49 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Internet1
> Subject: logging on NT
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to log the traffic that is going over a NT machine. We
> considered installing a cheap firewall on that machine that will
> generate the necessary loggings. But that is a bit overkill, because
> we won't define any rules on that machine. We are only interested in
> the loggings. It would be nice if we could save to loggings to
> textfiles for archiving purposes.
>
> So I have to following questions :
> - do we really need to install a firewall, or can we do the job with
> NT. I have no idea how you can generate a firewall-kind of loggings.
> - what cheap solution could we use to generate the loggings ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Walter.
>
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