Re: firewall-wizards Digest, Vol 50, Issue 5

Personally I'd use wireshark Daniel. The ability to create file sets
would allow for a full 24 hrs of capture. The book just out on
Wireshark by Laura Chappell is a great resource.

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> From: "Yack, Daniel" <[email protected]>
> Subject: [fw-wiz] Taking a traffic snapshot with network IDS
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> There are probably one thousand ways to do this, but I wanted to toss
> this out...
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> For simplicity, let's just say I'm watching traffic from an internet
> router to my core router(s).  That's the only segment I'm interested in.
> The goal is for me to discover out all 'normal' traffic in my
> environment, and take a snapshot of that.  By snapshot, I mean gather
> traffic for 24 hours.  Then review all of it manually, and create a
> template that says "alert when you find something that isn't in this
> list".
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> I realize this is a pretty simple problem - but getting back to basics
> is always a good thing.  I do have some linux experience, but am not a
> 'power user'.  Any ideas on tools or what to use for this?  An IDS/IPS
> is probably the answer here, right?  If so, which kind...perhaps snort?
> I consider myself a firewall guy but am ashamed I've never used it!!
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> Oh...as far as hardware available:  Doing this is in a lab first, which
> has:  Cisco for the internet router, going through Fortigate and/or
> Checkpoint firewalls, into a Cisco core layer 3 switch.  Also I have a
> few linux platforms but they're tasked for other things over there.
> Don't over-analyze the network topology, I can always move or make more
> than one IDS if needed.
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> Any ideas?  Perhaps someone has done this before?
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> -Dan
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