Internet tracking options

[Mark Haney]

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From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Scot L. Harris
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 12:02 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: RE: Internet tracking options

On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 11:50, Mark Haney wrote:

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Without using a proxy server to funnel all http requests you will have
to find another choke point where you can monitor all traffic.  The
logical place would be the external firewall.  Even there you will need
to parse the firewalls logs to collect the data you want to look at.  

In a normal setup where squid is used the firewall is typically set to
block all http requests unless they come from the proxy server.  If this
is not done then the proxy server may go unused and you won't get any
benefit from having it in place.

You may need to explain more of what it is you really want to do and the
environment you are trying to set this up in.  

Without a choke point to log and view the traffic, which implies parsing
a log file at some point, there are no real good ways to get what I
think you are asking.  Trying to sniff traffic on the fly is difficult
at best and still requires a central choke point.


Okay, let's try it this way.  There's an app that is available called
SPECTRE that will monitor usage as well as take screenshots of the
desktop at set intervals.  Is there anything like that for linux?

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