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