Shadowspawn
[H]ard|Gawd
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I am running a small hotspot with about 200 customers. My partner and I do a lot of manual work watching for customers with too many connections and/or too high of a download/upload ratio to try to control virus outbreaks/p2p junkies and share the bandwidth for everyone.
I need a way to actively monitor the network for virus and p2p activity. I am aware of Wireshark but have not dug deeply enough into it to see if it meets my needs.
I was hoping some of my fellow network gurus have had experience with this type of sensor and can point me in the right direction.
The ideal solution would be capable of sitting on a spanned port off of a Cisco switch that feeds my gateway and report on any virus signatures/p2p activity that it picks up. It should hopefully be open source but I can afford to pay for a lightweight package as well. I can dedicate a Linux or Windows server for this purpose.
Anybody have a suggestion?
I need a way to actively monitor the network for virus and p2p activity. I am aware of Wireshark but have not dug deeply enough into it to see if it meets my needs.
I was hoping some of my fellow network gurus have had experience with this type of sensor and can point me in the right direction.
The ideal solution would be capable of sitting on a spanned port off of a Cisco switch that feeds my gateway and report on any virus signatures/p2p activity that it picks up. It should hopefully be open source but I can afford to pay for a lightweight package as well. I can dedicate a Linux or Windows server for this purpose.
Anybody have a suggestion?