Re: RFI-Software: We want to see what our network is sending to the cable modem.

From: Renegade (not_at_t.all)
Date: 06/14/04


Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 01:38:41 GMT

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 10:41:45 +1000, Size Queen wrote:

> Hi. just a general question.
> We have a cable modem and a small home network with smoothwall, a switch and
> lotsa other clients.
> We have a laptop with two pcmcia network cards and some funky cables.
>
> Our question is: We will run linux on the laptop to act as a router and
> sniffer but what EXACT softwares should I run.
>
> We need a BaseOS, router, packet sniffer and decent log analyzer for linux.
>
> Setup: CABLEMODEM ----- LAPTOP ----- SMOOTHWALL ---- SWITCH -----
> LOTSA-CLIENTS.
> Surfboard SB5100 PII 64Mb 2Gb Crappy Box
> un-managed WinXP, Win2K, Linux.
>
> Basically we are going to start with Trinux (0.890) and follow their list of
> packages and freshmeat.net.
> If anyone one knows of a tried and tested solution, we would be most
> grateful.
>
> Thanx.
> RoseBay SizeQueens

Have you looked into Freesco? It is a minimal os with routing, intended to
be a free replacement for Cisco routers.
url is: http://www.freesco.info/



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