[OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring span ports on oi151

James Carlson carlsonj at workingcode.com
Tue Nov 8 12:39:19 UTC 2011


Jonathan Loran wrote:
> Why not something like this:
> 
> mkfifo /tmp/spanout-pipe
> tcpdump -i bridgename0 -s0 -w /tmp/spanout-pipe &
> cat /tmp/spanout-pipe | ssh  ids-system "snort-etc-capture"

Ew.  I like it.  :-/

For what it's worth, you could get rid of the named pipe:

tcpdump -i bridge0 -s0 -w /dev/stdout | ssh ids "snort-etc-capture"

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James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carlsonj at workingcode.com>



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