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Old 12-13-2005, 02:55 PM   #1
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Networking monitoring through use of gateway?


I'm trying to figure out a way that i can monitor internet usage on a corporate network. I've got about 75 people here and apparently, a problem with people abusing their un-restricted access. Is there anything out there that will allow me to setup a gateway or something on my Slackware server to pass traffic to for monitoring and logging? I need to be able to create reports based on originating IP, luckily we're using static addressing so it should be easy.

I looked on SourceForge.net but couldn't find any appropriate projects.

Any suggesitons?

 
Old 12-13-2005, 03:20 PM   #2
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Squid should be able to that, and you can configure it so it doesn't actually cache anything, simply examine the traffic and log it. With that number of people, I'd recommend enabling the cache though. With forwarded-for enabled, it should log the originating IP, or even better - tie it in with your network authentication such as Microsoft ADS, OpenLDAP, etc. and it will also track the username. Either way, extra graphing and log file analysers are available from the Squid website to make pretty viewing and examining of data - http://www.squid-cache.org

I suppose you might also want to look at whether completely unfiltered access is neccessary, and maybe some kind of content filtering should be brought it to restrict access to inappropriate sites during work hours...
 
  


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