[NTLUG:Discuss] [Fwd: What does this mean?]

[Brian]

Kelly--

Try one of these URL's:

http://www.grigna.com/diego/linux
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/network/monitor/protolog-1.0.8.tar.gz

  --Brian



Kelly Scroggins wrote:
> 
> what's it called, and where is it, and is GPL?
> 
> Kelly
> 
> Brian wrote:
> >
> > Kelly--
> >
> > I use a packet sniffer called protolog which will monitor various ports
> > that you configure for icmp, tcp, and udp packets.  Everything gets
> > logged in a summary file (ASCII) and a binary file.  An interpreter can
> > be used to grep through the binary files if there's something of
> > interest in the summary files.  I'm sure there's other sniffers out
> > there, but this one was (1) up and running the first time I compiled it,
> > and (2) has a very readable output format for network dummies like me.
> >
> >   --Brian
> >
> > Kelly Scroggins wrote:
> > >
> > > I see attempts to access my system all the time.  It's surprising how
> > > often it happens.  But there has always been an address associated with
> > > it.  How the heck do they find little 'ole me?!
> > >
> > > I was worried (I still am a little) that they had made their way in.
> > >
> > > I'll read the nmap doc you pointed to.  I need to know what their doing
> > > to my machine.
> > >
> >
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