<div>
K thanks. Are you familar with the program? I want to filter out all the unneed information that it analyzes. I just want to be able to view website requests and the such. Any ideas?<br />

</div>


K thanks. Are you familar with the program? I want to filter out all the unneed information that it analyzes. I just want to be able to view website requests and the such. Any ideas?


<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
I have a client that would like to keep a constant log of all incoming and outgoing requests on his LAN. THey currently use a Netgear FVS338 connect to Comcast business SMC router. An SBS 2003 R2 is the PDC and the hands out IPs and security for the LAN. He wants to log all incoming and outgoing requests from workstations in the office to ensure employee productivity. Is there a software solution that I can setup or a linux distro that I can throw on an old workstation to log this information? Also, if there is will it slow down the network? Does anyone forsee problems with this kind of setup?
</div>
</div>


I have a client that would like to keep a constant log of all incoming and outgoing requests on his LAN. THey currently use a Netgear FVS338 connect to Comcast business SMC router. An SBS 2003 R2 is the PDC and the hands out IPs and security for the LAN. He wants to log all incoming and outgoing requests from workstations in the office to ensure employee productivity. Is there a software solution that I can setup or a linux distro that I can throw on an old workstation to log this information? Also, if there is will it slow down the network? Does anyone forsee problems with this kind of setup?

Traffic Capture on a Netgear FVS338

A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. Routers perform the "traffic directing" functions on the Internet. The most familiar type of routers are home and small office cable or DSL routers that simply pass data, such as web pages, email, IM, and videos between computers and the Internet. More sophisticated routers, such as enterprise routers, connect large business or ISP networks up to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speed along the optical fiber lines of the Internet backbone. Though routers are typically dedicated hardware devices, use of software-based routers has grown increasingly common.

Routers

Hardware-based firewalls provide more sophisticated protection for inbound and outbound traffic than the simple Windows software firewall or the basic NAT firewalls found in routers. These devices implement techniques such as stateful packet inspection, deep packet inspection, and content filtering; and may include built-in antivirus and anti-malware protection.

Hardware Firewalls

A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.