The Coding Team

Right, I understand that.. I was looking for a program that organizes all of the captured data into a nice little browser interface or something. Like a tab for email captures, a tab for IM captures, a tab for websites visited, etc. Like I said, I know I could write something myself, I just figured there was something out there already. I know there are commercial solutions to do just that already.

So I'll assume that means NO, there is no all-in-one solution to grab interesting information off the wire. I can't believe that. I know there are commercial packages available, there must be something open source somewhere.

Hypothetically, let's say I'm a network administrator running a Debian 5.0 linux box for my Internet router/gateway. Is there such a software package that exists that will automatically grab any interesting information going thru my gateway (obviously, I'd run the logging software -on- the gateway machine). I'd like to do this without the client machines having to be modified in any way (Ie: no socks/proxies/etc). Now if this was possible, I suppose I'd be interested in logging as much information as I can about each individual MAC address, such as websites visited, POP/IMAP email sent/read, usernames/passwords, Instant Messaging transcripts, etc. I know I could whip something up using ngrep, etc... I'm just looking to see if there is already an all-in-one type solution, perhaps it would log information to a MySQL database or something.