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Date:      Sat, 15 Feb 2014 18:44:47 -0500
From:      George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com>
To:        "C. L. Martinez" <carlopmart@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Recommendations for packet capture
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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?

Best,
George




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