Re: Best Sniffer?

From: Keith W. McCammon (km@km.com)
Date: 02/25/03


From: "Keith W. McCammon" <km@km.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:53:07 -0500


> What sniffer would you recommend for the best value/cost? Are there any
> good free ones out there? I want to be able to scan only people coming
from
> the outside of the network in. I am using Network Activity Sniffer 1.5
> from NetworkActiv right now but it only allows you to block individual IP
> addresses from the sniffing, I want to block a whole range of local
> addresses.

tcpdump, windump, snort, ethereal, etc., etc.



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