Re: Log all traffic?

["Sp0oKeR Labs" <spooker () spooker com br>]

         I think you should use ntop (http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html).

Best Regards,

Sp0oKeR

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----- 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 10:08 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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