In article <[email protected]>, herbert langhans <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Rocky Hotas <[email protected]> [140825 14:01] > Hello! > I am sorry if my question looks trivial, but is there any way to >keep trace of ping requests in NetBSD? > No file in my /var/log directory has been modified after a ping >request sended from another host. Can I add some settings in a >configuration file in order to log these events? And (if yes) what is >the log file to be considered? > Thank you anyway > Rocky > >I am not sure you look for such an advanced solution. But with snort (an >intruder dedection program) you can log such events easily.
or go lo-tech and use tcpdump. But be careful not to put the interface in promiscuous mode because performance will suffer. christos
