Re: [WISPA] traffic logging

[Travis Johnson]

Hi, They just want to see that user A went to site B at time C. They basically just want to be Big Brother on their network (and it's a government agency, so they can). For the more technical people, the best packet tracking program I have ever seen is IpAudit. We have run it on our own backbone for almost 3 years now. It somehow grabs every single packet, logs it, and then saves it with _very_ minimal load on the PC. We have it running on a P4/2.8ghz with 1GB of RAM and it keeps up fine with 120Mbps incoming x 50Mbps outgoing traffic (30,000pps total). It has a web front end that enables my 1st level techs to check people's IP addresses to see if it looks like they are infected with a virus, worm, etc. It really is a quite amazing program, especially for free. The only problem is you have to be somewhat technical to even use it, and my customer needs something very simple to use. Travis Microserv David E. Smith wrote: On Mon, October 29, 2007 9:01 pm, Travis Johnson wrote: I have a large customer that is looking for a device that will log all of their internet traffic in and out of their network. What problem are they trying to solve, where they think this is what they want? This would take a LOT of disk space and a pretty hefty database, especially if they want to retain this information for weeks or months. They'll also need a fairly clever person around to sort things out, separating the wheat of a given Web request from the chaff of random ICMP traffic and other background noise (or even more computing horsepower to try to precompute the associations between, say, "DNS lookup" and "Web request"). I can't think of any off-the-shelf product that fills this niche right off. If they really need this and nothing else will do, feel free to write it. The scary part is that some people will blissfully ignore the privacy implications and buy one, possibly making you rich in the process :D David Smith MVN.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/

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