Re: heavily switched networks

[twig les <twigles () yahoo com>]

--- Stewart Larsen <slarsen42 () cfl rr com> wrote:
> I've looked into this ad can't seem to find an answer I like.
> Perhaps
> I'm asking the wrong question.
>
> Suppose I have a network consisting of a gateway which goes
> into a
> firewall.  The connection from the firewall goes into a switch
> which
> leads to another level of switches. some of these machines are
> servers,
> some are workstations. None of the switches have port
> mirroring (SPAN
> ports).
>
> I understand how to set us IDS at the gateway with a stealth
> interface.
> My question becomes, how do I effectively monitor the network.
>  If I put
> a tap before each switch, I will not be able to monitor
> traffic between
> 2 machines on the other side of the switch, correct?
>
> do I have to run  a snort sensor on each server? On each
> workstation?
> Ideally, I'd like to have one sensor for each segment without
> having to
> basically throw away existing hardware and get SPAN switches.
>
> -- 

You can use one or two boxes with multiple NICs sniffing,
running a different snort process for each one.  I'm doing that
and it works quite nicely if you name everything distinctly,
like "outbound.north.snort.sh" for the start script.

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