Re: Log all traffic?

[Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc com>]

At 05:43 PM 11/5/2003, Mark Nipper wrote:
> On 05 Nov 2003, nick travis wrote:
> > Is there a rule for snort to log all network traffic.  I need to dump it
> > all into a database and query it for bandwidth usage by certain hosts.
>
>         I think you're better off using tcpdump or ethereal for
> something like this.

Well, he wants to dump it to a database..


Quite frankly, logging all the packets to a database and doing a query is 
an insanely complex way of calculating bandwidth usage.

He'd be better off not trying to log packets at all and instead using 
IPTables/IPChains's accounting capabilities for this. It's what they're for :).



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