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Re: Log all traffic?
From: "jon baer" <security () jonbaer net>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:27:15 -0500
not sure why not do it on the fly with MRTG ... http://www.mrtg.org - jon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Kettler" <mkettler () evi-inc com> To: "Mark Nipper" <nipsy () tamu edu>; "nick travis" <linuxnews () wormfishin com> Cc: <snort-users () lists sourceforge net> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 7:08 PM Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Log all traffic?
At 05:43 PM 11/5/2003, Mark Nipper wrote:On 05 Nov 2003, nick travis wrote:Is there a rule for snort to log all network traffic. I need to dump
it
all into a database and query it for bandwidth usage by certain hosts.I think you're better off using tcpdump or ethereal for something like this.Well, he wants to dump it to a database.. Quite frankly, logging all the packets to a database and doing a query is an insanely complex way of calculating bandwidth usage. He'd be better off not trying to log packets at all and instead using IPTables/IPChains's accounting capabilities for this. It's what they're
for :).
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Current thread:
- Log all traffic? nick travis (Nov 05)
- Re: Log all traffic? Mark Nipper (Nov 05)
- Re: Log all traffic? Matt Kettler (Nov 05)
- Re: Log all traffic? jon baer (Nov 05)
- Re: Log all traffic? Sp0oKeR Labs (Nov 06)
- Re: Log all traffic? Matt Kettler (Nov 05)
- Re: Log all traffic? Matt Kettler (Nov 05)
- Who doesn't care about virus rules, and why? kenw (Nov 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Log all traffic? Mark . Schutzmann (Nov 05)
- Re: Log all traffic? Mark Nipper (Nov 05)