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Date:      Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:06:27 -0800
From:      Dennis Glatting <dg@pki2.com>
To:        George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com>
Cc:        "C. L. Martinez" <carlopmart@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Recommendations for packet capture
Message-ID:  <1392509187.35612.12.camel@btw.pki2.com>
In-Reply-To: <3D9E8EFA-1EB0-4CA6-B26E-CA87553150E3@neville-neil.com>
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On Sat, 2014-02-15 at 18:44 -0500, George Neville-Neil wrote:
> On Feb 14, 2014, at 2:21 , C. L. Martinez <carlopmart@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Dennis Glatting <dg@pki2.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 09:14 +0000, C. L. Martinez wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>> 
> >>> I need to setup some FreeBSD (or Linux, it depends) hosts to use as a
> >>> packet capture sensors for our infrastrucutre.
> >>> 
> >>> Searching about software that I could use under FreeBSD, I only find
> >>> these ones:
> >>> 
> >>> a) daemonlogger
> >>> b) streamdb
> >>> 
> >>> For Linux, it seems exits more alternatives. Any suggestions??
> >>> 
> >>> I need to monitor 1 GiB networks.
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> I've not (yet) used these:
> >> 
> >> /usr/ports/security/sguil-client
> >> /usr/ports/security/sguil-sensor
> >> /usr/ports/security/sguil-server
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> Thanks.
> > 
> > Thanks Dennis, but Sguil is not a packet capture componente. Sguil
> > needs daemonlogger to show you captured data.
> 
> I might be a bit confused.  Can you just use tcpdump with the appropriate flags
> to limit the size and number of files?
> 
> What are you trying to achieve?
> 

Well, I was trying to achive an evaluation of SGuil under FreeBSD but
after a couple hours of trying to get the peices to play I surrendered
to another day. I assumed the goal here was IPS.


-- 
Dennis Glatting <dg@pki2.com>




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