Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 14:05:59 -0700 From: "Kelsey Cummings" <kc@neteze.com> To: "Marty Poulin" <mpoulin@honk.org>, <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Using tcpdump to report on web-surfing habits Message-ID: <145401bf0150$70fc0800$33f9c9d0@neteze.com> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990917163740.9308B-100000@spectre>
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Wouldn't the better way to do this be with a proxy like squid? Not only would you be able to limit access to certain sites, you'd have a much easier time logging all you user's web access. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Kelsey Cummings System Administrator NetEase, Inc. kc@neteze.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: Marty Poulin <mpoulin@honk.org> To: <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org> Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 1:45 PM Subject: Using tcpdump to report on web-surfing habits > > Hi, > > I work for a mid-sized company (about 300 people in my building) and I > would like to set up a BSD box to listen to network traffic and email me > whenever someone accesses a prohibited site. (eg Porn, Warez, > gambling...) > > tcpdump seems like a good place to start, but has anyone had any > experience using it for something like this? If so how did you get it to > work? > > Part of the reason I want this information (aside from being the network > snitch) is because I want to eventually justify purchasing a fairly large > server that I can run Squid on with content filters. I've already set up > a small test box that works quite well, but it slows down when too much of > a load is placed on it (it's a P-100 with 24MB ram). > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > M. > ----- > This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper. > - T. S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men" > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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