Piro24
July 10th, 2009, 10:21 PM
Theres a long, lengthy story behind this, but I'll spare the boring details. Basically, what I'm looking to do is convert one of the oldest, relatively useless PC's we own into a Linux Box that would monitor our Wlan, extensively log it, and report on suspicious activity on all machines.
I'm probably not going to be using Ubuntu on this, most likely a really lightweight distro, I'm looking at Arch currently. However, I'd like some tips as for what programs to use. I have a few in mind, but would like your input and suggestions out of the blue. Thanks!
1: Program to log all network traffic. For example
#192.168.2.3 outgoing request to *IP Address** Port:67845 Service: Utorrent
2: Program to prevent ARP Spoofing, and especially password sniffing.
3: Program to detect suspicious network activity and possibly log it.
4: Anything else you can think of.
Please keep in mind this computer is there to log and monitor. Not to anonymize traffic or block connections, however, any network security tools (that do not really effect speed) that you can recommend will be useful.
Thanks guys.
I'm probably not going to be using Ubuntu on this, most likely a really lightweight distro, I'm looking at Arch currently. However, I'd like some tips as for what programs to use. I have a few in mind, but would like your input and suggestions out of the blue. Thanks!
1: Program to log all network traffic. For example
#192.168.2.3 outgoing request to *IP Address** Port:67845 Service: Utorrent
2: Program to prevent ARP Spoofing, and especially password sniffing.
3: Program to detect suspicious network activity and possibly log it.
4: Anything else you can think of.
Please keep in mind this computer is there to log and monitor. Not to anonymize traffic or block connections, however, any network security tools (that do not really effect speed) that you can recommend will be useful.
Thanks guys.