Analyzing network data with appliance router

[Ernest Doub]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 6:49 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 06/12/2011 05:51 PM, Ernest Doub wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 5:29 PM, NoOp ...
>>> Better router :-) That said, when my trusty BEFVP41 started going wonky
>>> on my I had to back up to my Netgear & that router sucks as far as
>>> traffic logs go. For a small home network, you might want to install
>>> etherape to watch your network periodically. It will give you a
>>> graphical view of your network traffic.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately the repositories for maverick only offer 0.9.8 & 0.9.12 is
>>> the latest:
>>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/etherape
>>> http://etherape.sourceforge.net/
>>>
>>> I'm not aware of any 0.9.12 deb's (haven't looked actually).
> ...
>>>
>> If you are truly concerned about bots, viruses, etc. I hope you are
>> not depending on the anti-virus software provided by Micro$oft.  You
>> have to have a good 3rd party monitor. [belt and suspenders approach]
>> IMHO AVG is probably the best of the freeware offerings but NOD32 fro
>> ESET is the best available and a bargain for the peace of mind it
>> affords.
>
> I've purged all AVG (free & otherwise) and use Avast instead on my
> Windows Virtual Machines & others. I'll not go into reasons why, as this
> is not the proper place to do it.
>
> For the VM's I use bridged networking so that the VM has it's own IP
> address so that I can easily scan from the network using Bitdefender for
> Unices. That way I'm scanning it from a linux machine rather than from a
> Windows machine. I use a "test" machine to do the scanning so that it
> doesn't take up resources on my regular machines. To do that, I mount
> the machine's drive & then direct BDU to scan; browse to the ~/.gvfs
> folder where it gets 'virtually' mounted. I do the same for a remote
> machine on the network.
>
> For a dual boot machine, I just mount the ntfs & do it on that directly.
>
>
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If I'm understanding you correctly you basically have one  linux
machine whose only function is to stand as the sentry and watchdog for
the windows machines.
Do I have this correct?
If that is so it sounds like a pretty well hardened system but not
practical for most home users.  Would make perfect sense to me for a
business environment though.
I have NOD32 running on my wifes windows box and it has been as solid
as an anvil and very lightweight on resources.
ED

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