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Date:      Wed, 3 Mar 2004 09:27:58 -0600
From:      Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz>
To:        Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Security List <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to monitoring activity on a card?
Message-ID:  <20040303152758.GW13775@nkinkade.bmp.ub>
In-Reply-To: <20040303094647.J93367@zoraida.natserv.net>
References:  <20040303094647.J93367@zoraida.natserv.net>

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On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:51:15AM +0000, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> My setup 4.9 stable with IPFW. Machine acts as gateway for two machines.
>=20
> What are my options on monitoring activity on my external card?
>=20
> This morning I noticed my DSL modem activity light is blinking non-stop.
> Looking at /var/log/ don't see anything suspicious.
>=20
> I feel tempted to add "log" to all my ipfw pass rules, but wonder if there
> isn't a better way.
>=20
> I am mostly concerned there is either some kind of attack going on or
> somehow the machine was hacked and it's running something it's not
> supposed to.

There are a lot of utilities in the ports collection that will allow you
to monitor your network activity.  One small and useful one is at
net/trafshow.  It's not fancy, but it is curses based and will give you
a quick idea of what is going on.  Other considerations might be ntop or
ethereal.

Nathan
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