Importance of Network Monitoring A LearnsSecurityOnline.com Article http://www.learnsecurityonline.com © Learn Security Online, Inc. 2004-2005
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Introduction Ethernet Internet Protocol TCP,UDP and ICMP Tcpdump Basics Ethereal Dsniff Snort and IDS Fundamentals Putting it together
Introduction ------------
Reading network traffic is essential for system administrators, network engineers, and security analysts. At some point there will be a need to read network traffic directly instead of monitoring application