Recommendation for network monitoring?

lilohatea · 06-30-2005, 07:12 PM

i've been using Etherape for quite a while now and want to look at possibly better tools for network monitoring.

are you using a network monitoring tool that you really like?

thanks!

@lilohatea

Pcghost · 06-30-2005, 10:16 PM

Snort. It is really cool once set up properly.

lilohatea · 07-01-2005, 05:37 PM

thank you, Pcghost.

snort is EXACTLY what I was looking for.

@lilohatea

robertwolfe · 07-01-2005, 07:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by lilohatea
i've been using Etherape for quite a while now and want to look at possibly better tools for network monitoring.

are you using a network monitoring tool that you really like?

thanks!

@lilohatea

Myself I use Nagios and IPtraf on my Sun Ultra 5 running Debian "Etch".

vees · 07-02-2005, 12:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by lilohatea
i've been using Etherape for quite a while now and want to look at possibly better tools for network monitoring.

are you using a network monitoring tool that you really like?

thanks!

@lilohatea

Depends what you want to do. Etherape just gives you the basics: ip, protocol, volume. Try Ethereal for packet sniffing. P0f for passive OS detection. Nessus (or NessusFE with GUI) for vulnerability detection and, of course, nmap (or nmapfe) for port scanning.

Does this sound good enough?

Cheers!

lilohatea · 07-04-2005, 09:05 AM

Thanks for the great information.

I'm going to try them all.

@lilohatea

HiZeR · 07-04-2005, 12:57 PM

If you want just see your incoming, outgoing traffic and look general statistic, try to use iptraf and also tcpdump.

vees · 07-04-2005, 08:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by lilohatea
Thanks for the great information.

I'm going to try them all.

@lilohatea

in that case may I enthusiastically reccommend http://www.knoppix-std.org/ (in particular, take a look a the list of tools here: http://www.knoppix-std.org/tools.html ).

The disk is well designed, come with good support on the website, has plenty of docs and can be used anywhere.

Cheers!