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      zinzara
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      I have some experience analyzing traffic and was wondering if there's a way (package or otherwise) to continuously capture and save packets. Reason is, I also have some experience writing snort signatures and would like to look through my traffic from time to time and if I find anything I don't like and it wasn't caught by snort, I could write a signature on it. So, is there a way to do this? I would prefer to save onto the pfsense box but if I have to setup an external server that would be ok too. I realize this would add up quickly in storage requirements but this is on my home network which I don't do a whole lot on and I have a big hard drive. Thanks.

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        Cino
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        i've never set packet count to 0 but you could give it a try, look under: Diagnostics: Packet Capture

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          BBcan177 Moderator
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          @zinzara:

          I have some experience analyzing traffic and was wondering if there's a way (package or otherwise) to continuously capture and save packets. Reason is, I also have some experience writing snort signatures and would like to look through my traffic from time to time and if I find anything I don't like and it wasn't caught by snort, I could write a signature on it. So, is there a way to do this? I would prefer to save onto the pfsense box but if I have to setup an external server that would be ok too. I realize this would add up quickly in storage requirements but this is on my home network which I don't do a whole lot on and I have a big hard drive. Thanks.

          There is a Solution Called "Security Onion" that will do Full Packet Capture and more…

          http://blog.securityonion.net/p/securityonion.html
          https://code.google.com/p/security-onion/wiki/IntroductionToSecurityOnion

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