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IPAUDIT ========================== Contents ======== IPAUDIT listens to a network device in promiscuis mode, and records of every 'connection', each conversation between two ip addresses. A unique connection is determined by the ip addresses of the two machines, the protocol used between them and the port numbers (if they are communicating via udp or tcp). It uses a hash table to keep track of the number of bytes and packets in both directions. When IPAUDIT receives a signal SIGTERM (kill) or SIGINT (kill -2, usually the same as a Control-C), it stops collecting data and write the tabulated results. This package also includes some companion C programs. See the CONTENTS file for more info. Suggested Usage =============== IPAUDIT can be used to monitor network activity for a variety of purposes. It has proved useful for monitoring intrusion detection, bandwidth consumption and denial of service attacks. We run it in shifts. Every 30 minutes launch an new instance of IPAUDIT in the background and kill the previous instance. Before the previous instance dies it writes a file describing the network activity for the past 30 minutes. Perl scripts then parse this file and make a Web viewable report. It currently monitors a 45MB link averaging at about 1/3 capacity on a Pentium II/333 running Linux 2.2.13. Average CPU usage is at about 10%, and peaks at around %20 on the half hour. IPAUDIT can also be used with IPAUIT-WEB, and collection of cron and web-cgi scripts for gathering data and making reports (NOTE: The separate IPAUDIT-WEB distruction not yet available. You can however obtain web-cgi scripts from ipaudit-0.93b4.tgz). Installing ========== (1) You must first have pcap library installed (see Requirements below). (2) Type 'make' to produce executables, located in the src/ directory. (3) Copy man pages ipaudit.1 to your man page directory. (4) optionally copy man page ipstrings.1, total.1 from man/ to system man page directory. (5) 'ipaudit' typically must be run as root to read the network interface. Documentation ============= See the man pages ipaudit.1, ipstrings.1, total.1 and web page http://sp.uconn.edu/~jrifkin/ipaudit/ Contact Info ============ Jon Rifkin <jon.rifkin@uconn.edu>. The most recent version of IPAUDIT is at http://ipaudit.sf.net If you are having trouble with ipaudit, please send output when running with the -d option. Requirements ============ IPAUDIT uses the pcap library which is available from the URL http://www-nrg.ee.lbl.gov/nrg.html. It is installed by default in some Unix environments, and it available as an rpm from Red Hat. Recommendations =============== If you save raw pcap data files (using the -w option). Many programs can read such files including ipstrings (included with ipaudit, see the 'ipstrings' man page), tcpdump (the original pcap program, http://www.tcpdump.org) and ethereal (http://www.zing.org). But remember that 'ipstrings' included with ipaudit can also read these files. See the 'ipstrings' man page. You might find the included program 'total' useful for performing some simple queries on ipaudit's output files. See the 'total' man page. License ======= IPAUDIT is covered by the GNU General Public Licensse. See the file COPYING for copying permission. IPAUDIT is Copyright (c) 1999-2005 by Jonathan Rifkin
