Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] RE: Specs for monitoring a full 100Mb line

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From: "Berry, Richard" <BerryR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:54:28 -0600
Here are two links:

First, the U.S. Navy's page for the project:

http://www.nswc.navy.mil/ISSEC/CID/

And a TechWeb review of the project:

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19981008S0010

Richard Berry
LAN Engineer - Principal
"Si hoc legere scis numium eruditionis habes."



-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Casto [mailto:robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 9:32 AM
To: Berry, Richard
Subject: RE: Specs for monitoring a full 100Mb line


Where can I find the Shadow tool you mentioned?


Robert Casto 
Tel (513) 755-2221 
Cell (513) 349-5282 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Berry, Richard [mailto:BerryR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 9:59 AM
To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx; robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Specs for monitoring a full 100Mb line


Actually, there's a pretty good tool out there to do what you want:
Shadow. We use it to do the captures using machines much like has been
described; Using several data collectors, they feed their captures to a
central server once an hour. We capture only the headers, but we keep a
4-day backlog. That way, if some problem shows up, we have historical
data to review. We use the internal Shadow search, which gives us a
TCPDUMP-style report, or we can extract out and use Ethereal.
Alternately, if we need a full-packet capture, we temporarily take over
the sensors, get our capture, drop it on our machines and use Ethereal
to review.

Richard Berry
LAN Engineer - Principal
"Si hoc legere scis numium eruditionis habes."