Re: Capture Email Content / Website Activity

[stuff () trackingsolutions ca]

There are several challenges here. 

I am developing a solution for a client to allow them to determine if their 
network is clean for inappropriate  activity. They are running a Linksys 
router with built in switch. I suspect that this will limit the abilities to 
capture all the data. When I run "snort -dv" I am able to see all http 
activity but not outgoing emails from other machines. I can see the email was 
sent but that was it.

Do I need to get a new switch to accomplish this job?

Thanks

On November 27, 2005 03:39 am, barryab63-ia () yahoo com wrote:
> In order to see everything on the network, you need to have one of the
> following:
>
>   1.  A true hub.  But, you'll only see traffic that passes through the
> hub. 2.  A switch that will let you configure a monitor port, have the port
> your snort box is connected to configured to monitor all the other ports. 
> How you do this depends on the switch. 3.  Use a network tap.  Place the
> tap were it will pickup the traffic you want to see, possibly between your
> firewall and inside router/switch, that way you would see everything in and
> out of your network. 4.  Run snort in in-line mode, place the snort box in
> a location similar to the network tap.
>
>   You would really need to give more information on your network to get a
> more detailed answer.
>
>   As to detecting web activity, snort does have some rules for detect web
> traffic.  But, it sound from you question that it might be better to try to
> get this info from you Firewall logs.  Snort isn't really a very good web
> usage monitoring tool.
>
>   Barry
>
>
>
> stuff () trackingsolutions ca wrote:
>   I am new to snort and am starting to test things out. I am able to
> capture email content from the machine running snort, but I would also like
> to capture email being sent on the entire network. Is there a way to do
> this?
>
> Also is there a way to capture visited websites for the entire network to a
> file stating date, time, url, ipaddress?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>
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