Re: Monitor Intruders in Real time

From: Chuck (none_at_example.net)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: 27 Oct 2004 17:52:10 -0500

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:55:19 GMT, "KG6VQE" <info<nospam>@thecomputerdood.com>
wrote:

>Hello to the Group,
>I have a heardware firewall, Watchguard Firebox 700, and it has a feature
>called "HOST WATCH", with gives you a realtime view of what (or whom) is
>currently accessing the IP address. It displays the IP address, and then
>uses DNS to resolve to host.
>Does anyone know of a program that will "emulate" this function...I want to
>put a PC on one of my Public IP's, and watch the activitty. I use TCPVIEW
>from sysinternals, and it sort of does this function....but want a more
>investigative tool.
>
>thanks in advance.
>
>Eric KG6VQE
>

Eric,

Port Explorer (free) from
<http://www.diamondcs.com.au/portexplorer/index.php?page=home> is similar in
function to TCPView, but with more functionality. It has a packet log, plus the
paid version includes a lightweight packet sniffer.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.