[plug] Network Monitoring

[Aaron Devenny]

Hi Margo,

Ethereal is perfect if you are running X.  It will let you see contents of
packets etc in a nice GUI.  Ethereal also has a Win32 and Linux port, so you
can use it on either OS.

If you want to go more hardcore, tcpdump is a CLI version of a packet dump
and a program called iptraf is also a nice ncurses based version to view
source/dest packets.  Usability of these programs depends on how much detail
you want to see things in though.

Hope this helps.

Aaron

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au]
On Behalf Of Margo Adams
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 12:21 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: [plug] Network Monitoring

Hi everyone

I am studying at TAFE doing website design. My current security 
assignment is to obtain a network monitor, install, and write up the 
details of installation & configuration.

Why am I posting this here, you ask? Because the example given was 
Microsoft Network Monitor...

i asked the lecturer if I was restricted to windows and he said NO... 
write it on any program as long as I understand the principles.. groovy

Being still fairly new to linux, I have no idea but am assuming there 
are network monitors available. I have Apache instyalled so something 
that would record hits on my local server would be excellent.

Can someone refer me to some software/helpful sites? :) I really don't 
want to do the assignment on MS...

Margo

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