[sllug-members]: Transparent Proxy Log Files

[Allen Parker]

On 11/13/06, raven <raven at kekeke.org> wrote:
> Knight Walker wrote:
> >
> > I myself am interested in something that can keep track of IMs, to keep
> > the teenager honest, but I haven't found anything yet.  I've heard of
> > something for AIM, but he doesn't use that, so it's no help for me.
> >
> > -KW
> >
>
> Well, if you really want to do some snooping you could always install
> ethereal on the nat / proxy box.  I haven't checked to see how well it
> runs on command line, I normally use it on windows.  I'm building it
> now, and I'll report back.
>
> www.ethereal.com

I find that tcpdump is more than adequate for most things (uses pcap,
doesn't require X11), ethereal (or whatever the hell it's called
nowadays) is actually quite a bit heavier than tcpdump, but both will
fill a disk rather quickly.