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Old 11-17-2003, 07:30 PM   #1
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monitoring a port

I need to monitor tcp port 80 on a linux box. How do I go about doing that or maybe a little more general. What is the best monitoring tool on a linux box. I have been using tcpdump.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
Old 11-17-2003, 07:50 PM   #2
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What values are you after? The actual content,
or just the size & src/dst addresses? :)

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Old 11-17-2003, 08:14 PM   #4
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OK, and what defines "the best monitoring tool"?

You could have a look at
http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html
http://reptile.rug.ac.be/~coder/sniffit/sniffit.html
http://www.ethereal.com/
to name justa few, or stick with tcpdump
since you're not hunting down other stuff
than tcp IP packets on port 80.

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Old 11-18-2003, 01:37 PM   #5
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If its only src+dst on TCP/80, why not just add a firewall log target rule?
 
  


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