From owner-freebsd-security Tue Feb 13 9: 8:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB71837B491 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:08:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f1DHV3d92721; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:31:08 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:31:03 -0600 (CST) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: "H. Wade Minter" Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting more information from ipfw logs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, H. Wade Minter wrote: > I'm running a ipfw firewall on 4.2-STABLE. I've got my rules set up > fine, and everything seems to be going well. However, I'd like to ge > more logged information than just the time, source IP:port, and dest > IP:port. Can ipfw do this, or is there an addon I need to use to get > things like packet content and whatnot logged? > You are looking for an IDS (Intrusion Detection System) sotware package that will actually examine the contents of packets. A great one already exists in the ports, it's called snort. For more information on snort's capabilities, see http://www.snort.org. Nick Rogness - Keep on routing in a Free World... "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message