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kwanbis

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Hi. I want to monitor what the users are doing on a LAN.

Mostly, i want to make sure they are not downloading movies/music/etc. What tools and how should i do it?

NOTE: if you think there is a better forum for LAN issues, please let me know. Thanks.

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both are "proxy" like. I don't want to put anything in between. I want to "listen" to the nw. I was thinking wireshark (ethereal)

Possible, but it will give you a lot of work to figure all the traffic out. You could start by proper filtering, then perhaps exporting the whole dump and do a search on that. But like I wrote, it will give you a lot of work, even if you would only do this occasionally. Stripping down your whole dump could be best done using some sort of script, but writing a proper script will also take plenty of time. Anyway, best would be still to put a proxy in between for instance.

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  • 2 weeks later...
I'd encourage you to check out the ntop link I posted. Ntop is basically a nice html front end report system that runs on top of ethereal / wireshark. It makes things so much easier, oh, and it's free.

Thanks, just read your post, will try it tomorrow :hello:

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