Re: Is there a way for Snort to detect large http downloads?

[Jon Baer <security () jonbaer net>]

You'd probably want ntop in this situation ... www.ntop.org and then 
curb it off with wondershaper.

- Jon

Jason Truong wrote:
> Is there a rule in Snort that can help to alert when a user it downloading a very large file from the internet...via 
> http or ftp?
> We have a 9mb pipe out to the internet and sometimes I get alerts (from Nagios) mentioning that the pipe if full.  I 
> have already disabled P2P applications at the firewall level.  I can resort to making configs on the Cisco level but 
> was wondering if there was a way for Snort to alert on large downloads.
>
> Large can be say > 50 MB.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason 


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