On Sat August 20 2005 8:52 am, Mike Klinke wrote: > On Saturday 20 August 2005 06:36, Claude Jones wrote: > > I can't seem to engage my brain on this. It's a simple task on my > > Windows firewall, and I'm sure it's the same on Fedora. I would > > like to do two things, neither of which I have been able to > > figure out. 1) Pull up a log and look at recent traffic - what's > > passing, what's been denied > > 2) Open a window that shows this 'live' - in other words, execute > > some command that leads to the outside world, and watch what the > > firewall does What are the appropriate tools? > > -- > > Claude Jones > > Bluemont, VA, USA > > In addition to the iptables that Rakotomandimby mentioned, spend > some time with tcpdump, iptraf, and ethereal for live packet > captures. > Mike or others who have suggested ntop: In extensive reading and experiments on ntop, I have hit a brick wall. It is suggested that the best success is to be achieved with the latest source from cvs - from the ntop download page it instructs: First set the variable CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxx:/export/home/ntop I can't seem able to do this! What is the proper syntax to set this variable? -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
