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Old 05-05-2005, 08:58 PM   #1
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How can I monitor all AIM traffic with ethereal/tethereal?


How can I monitor all Aol IM traffic with ethereal/tethereal?
 
Old 05-05-2005, 09:04 PM   #2
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Look into a program called AIMSniff
 
Old 05-06-2005, 12:30 PM   #3
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Thanks!

but AIMsniff only monitors 1 port, i have AIM traffic that i noticed on alteast ports 5090 and 5091
 
Old 05-06-2005, 01:16 PM   #4
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Well, in theory, you could try to decode all ports by adjusting the tcpdump filters, but you would need a MASSIVE system to handle that kind of traffic.
 
Old 05-07-2005, 01:02 PM   #5
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Well, in theory, you could try to decode all ports by adjusting the tcpdump filters, but you would need a MASSIVE system to handle that kind of traffic.
No you wouldn't ... look at snort. It does inspection of every frame it hears and you can run it on "moderate" systems at best.


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but AIMsniff only monitors 1 port, i have AIM traffic that i noticed on alteast ports 5090 and 5091
AimSniff will do promiscuous monitoring of the network (you'll need a SPAN port in your switch to plug this box into or you won't hear anything). It'll catch all AIM traffic to and from your network (and double log traffic from one user on your network to another user on your network )
 
Old 05-07-2005, 01:40 PM   #6
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AIMSniff also decodes the AIM protocol: their developers are the ones who have said monitoring ALL ports would need a sizable system.
 
Old 05-17-2005, 06:54 PM   #7
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Just going on experience.

I log aim traffic for about 150 users on a 550 P3 running FreeBSD. It's not exactly what I'd call "sizeable", especially considering it's running MySQL, Apache, PHP and Horde for about 50 of those users to work a shared IMAP folder that averages 1500 messages.
 
  


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