http://jackofallit.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/pfsniffer/ Networking, Programming, Operating Systems... Anything I.T. related! Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:44:26 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://jackofallit.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/pfsniffer/#comment-56 The Cruft Of My Brain » Cheap remote sniffer Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:20:35 +0000 http://jackofallit.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-56 [...] comment 0Digg meLooking for a cheap and reliable way of doing packet capture remotely. I found this reference to using PFSense and it looks like a pretty slick idea. I was quite happy with PFSense when I was [...] [...] comment 0Digg meLooking for a cheap and reliable way of doing packet capture remotely. I found this reference to using PFSense and it looks like a pretty slick idea. I was quite happy with PFSense when I was [...]

]]> http://jackofallit.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/pfsniffer/#comment-25 pfSense Digest » Blog Archive » pfSniffer? A non-firewall use for pfSense Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:34:25 +0000 http://jackofallit.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-25 [...] Jack of All IT posted an interesting use for pfSense, as a dedicated sniffer box. 1.3 allows the configuration of just one network interface, so uses like this will be even easier in the future.  [...] [...] Jack of All IT posted an interesting use for pfSense, as a dedicated sniffer box. 1.3 allows the configuration of just one network interface, so uses like this will be even easier in the future.  [...]

]]> http://jackofallit.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/pfsniffer/#comment-24 FreeBSD News - quick links (week 17) | FreeBSD - the unknown Giant Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:50:18 +0000 http://jackofallit.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-24 [...] We recently had a need for this sort of thing and I had a great idea. Many months ago, I noticed that pfSense had added a very nifty feature called Packet Capture. Essentially, the pfSense WebGUI has an interface to tcpdump, allowing you to put in some simple filter criteria (source/destination IP Address) and have a trace executed on a particular interface. This is a really nice feature for troubleshooting your firewall, but I thought that this could be used to make a distributed “pfSniffer”. More… [...] [...] We recently had a need for this sort of thing and I had a great idea. Many months ago, I noticed that pfSense had added a very nifty feature called Packet Capture. Essentially, the pfSense WebGUI has an interface to tcpdump, allowing you to put in some simple filter criteria (source/destination IP Address) and have a trace executed on a particular interface. This is a really nice feature for troubleshooting your firewall, but I thought that this could be used to make a distributed “pfSniffer”. More… [...]

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