Re: [fw-wiz] traffic analysis

From: Bill Royds (Bill_at_royds.net)
Date: 05/29/03

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    To: "Loxat White" <loxatwhite@yahoo.com>
    Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 18:42:30 -0400
    

    In the Windows world, Microsoft has made available a free utility call Log
    Parser that can handle many of the Microsoft log file formats (web, ISA,
    Event logs etc.) as well as plain text where you describe the format. It
    uses SQL syntax on the fields of the logs to extract records of interest
    and can can convert them to various other formats (SQL Server, Tabbed text,
    CSV etc.) so they can then be analyzed with other tools.
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8cde4028-e247-45be-bab9-ac851fc166a4&DisplayLang=en
    (unwrap if neccessary).
    As well, the Cygwin port of the BASH shell and other Linunx/Unix utilities
    gives all the Unix tools, including grep, perl, awk, etc. (see
    http://sources.redhat.com )

    You can then produce a report on which protocols are in use, analyze them as
    Mikhail as indicated and be much more aware of what your network is doing

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "R. DuFresne" <dufresne@sysinfo.com>
    To: "Loxat White" <loxatwhite@yahoo.com>
    Cc: <firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com>
    Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 4:37 PM
    Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] traffic analysis

    :
    : In the unix world, sed/awk/grep are your friends, iin the windows world
    : there are ports of those unix tools that can help in this area...of
    : course, some are adverse to rolling their own and prefer preinvented
    : wheels to work with. But, they sometimes tend to give up specifics of
    : functionality that a handrolled method can proviide. It depends upon the
    : time and resources one wishes to push that way, though this does not sound
    : like too resource intensive of a task.
    :
    : Thanks,
    :
    : Ron DuFresne
    :
    : On Wed, 28 May 2003, Loxat White wrote:
    :
    : > Hi all,
    : > i am looking for a log analysis tool, i need to
    : > extarct the source and the destenation info. from log
    : > file collected by syslog program from a firewall,
    : > the analysis will help me in detecting what policies i
    : > should keep put in the firewall.
    : > thanks
    : > Faisal
    : >
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