[plug] Network Monitoring

[Shayne O'Neill]

I strongly strongly recomend ethereal, and even more strongly recomend
spending time tracing network comms for diferent programs to see how the
communications take place.

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On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Aaron Devenny wrote:

> 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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