Re: sniffer

From: chris@nospam.com
Date: 04/19/02


From: chris@nospam.com
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:52:14 -0700

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:43:24 +0200, "Grzesiek"
<grzes@lanservice.com.pl> wrote:

>Thanks for your advice,
>but I should protct my network and my clients networks which are larger, and
>I can't be there everyday.
>Can I detect "flood" programs (large network traffic) ?
>Is it possible to set some options in managed switch to protect (VLAN,
>Spanning Tree) ?
>Is any software to protect servers or workstations ?

Depending on the switch you can have it generate an snmp trap o
rsyslog message if the mac table overflows. Other than that not much.