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Terry Hill wrote: > At the end of the day, I don't really want a resolvable IP address on > any of the interfaces, I just want a bridge (switch) that's available > to plug my gear into with "packet history" - hence the rolling pcap. Nor did we. For a long time the bridge box had an IP for administration, but no default route, so it couldn't connect to anything outside of the network. > The project stems from thinking "what the heck happened then", but not > being able to look into the past, traffic wise - and the idea of > making something of my own using linux, my first "proper" project. One of the bridges I have is doing traffic shaping. The idea was a drop-in traffic shaper, didn't require any changes to either side (although inserting such things soon reveals interesting ARP table behaviour on some boxes, for which a reboot was the easiest fix in most cases). Be curious to see how much data, and how quickly you can store it. Looking at stuff here, it is relatively easy to store stuff to disk faster than it crosses the network, but the disk used to log stuff would fill up fairly fast, so we'd probably only be able to store a few days worth, and then there is efficient access to it.... -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html