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Re: [ecs] linux outgoing-ethernet traffic monitor ? Mark Gilmore Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:38:07 -0700

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hi neil,
tcpdump was what i ended up using (with a filter as you mention).
thanks,
mark

At 10:24 AM 9/2/2006, you wrote:

>Richard Yee wrote:
>>Mark,
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>>You can set up outgoing firewall rules to log and/or reject any
>>traffic of your choice.  Just look up the firewall commands for their
>>flavour of Linux. (e.g. iptables)
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>Use Ethereal to observe traffic (or tcpdump). Ethereal will require
>the user to watch the traffic. You can use tcpdump from the command
>line to watch traffic but it will take knowledge of IP, tcpdump and
>lots of Unix tools for filtering. There may be another program
>that can be used (such as netflow) to record the IP sessions. I
>had some trouble setting it up in the past with mrtg.
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