Re: intrusion detection
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:00:30 +0630
David Bernier <david250@videotron.ca> wrote:
...
> The Gnome system monitor now shows incoming traffic at 4 kB/sec every 20
> seconds. Maybe
> this is when my computer contacts an SNTP server ( simple network time
> protocol).
>
> Would a package such as ethereal tell me what this traffic is?
Probably. It would tell you what protocol it is, what system is being
contacted, and exactly what data is being transmitted. Ethereal
understands many protocols, and will interpret them for you.
Celejar
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