You're reading too much into it. They're right. The ability is there to mirror every packet to/from a IP address onto disk.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ralph Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 12:23 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: RE: [WISPA] Mikrotik's (lame) answer to CALEA as of 4/23 It is lame because it is a feature that the user community needs and wants, and the vendor is passing the buck. Not surprising, concerning their actions on FCC certification of other products. Mikrotik makes dandy router software and I support them on that. We do use the PC version in some POPs Open CALEA is just not yet ready for prime time, however the compliance date loometh soon. The CALEA tap/probe should be something that can be done in the router (I think that's how Cisco implemented it). Because Imagestream will have it ready May 1st, we went with their box just to have something that works now has been tested with the FBI. I'd just like to feel that the company who many of us support heavily should listen to and support its customers better. I've seen your posts and am well aware that one can capture all traffic via mirror port and hand the whole shebang over to the LEA, or we can spend hours wading through it and massaging data (which I think might cause it to be tainted). We've probably all captured users' traffic before and probably all know how to run Ethereal. I'd just like to see an accepted method that doesn't take an abundance of time to institute and maintain. I'm curious- do you have a solution, working now, that uses the hardware you mention and OpenCALEA to deliver a product that will be accepted by law enforcement, or are you just talking concepts? _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 11:55 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik's (lame) answer to CALEA as of 4/23 Why is that lame? I don't see where this is Mikrotik's problem or issue. I'm going to keep saying this over and over and over (started over a year ago). Use a smart ethernet switch and mirror your main internet connection to a box that can capture the traffic. Then use something like openCalea (www.opencalea.org). Even if you have to buy a switch, a box to run the software, etc. you are less than $500 total. If you have multiple NOC's, $500 per location is cheap. Travis Microserv ralph wrote: I asked: I have 3 of your licensed routers (level 4) When do you plan to release a version of RouterOS that is CALEA compliant? Thank You They Replied: Hello, It already is, you simply have to enable sniffer of all traffic, and store the raw data on a server that captures it. You can also use smart switches that can mirror ports to a capturing server. See discussions on our forum on this topic. Regards, Normunds -- Come to MikroTik User Meetings - April 28th, Abuja, NIGERIA - May 31st - June 1st, Orlando, USA http://mum.mikrotik.com -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
