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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Auditing network traffic
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 10:29:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3655233.WIOkSfVQiu@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27424530.ASkzcua8kM@x2>

On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 10:18:29 AM Steve Grubb wrote:
> > I work on an audisp plugin which audits network traffic – what process
> > has send/received data to/from what remote address. So far I see 2 ways
> > of accomplishing that:
> > 
> > Hook syscalls. First, hook socket call with af_inet/inet6 to get pid and
> > fd, then read/write/sendto/recvfrom filtered by pid and fd

One other thing, read and write will tell you that a read or write happened. 
It does not record what was read or written. If you need that, you will have 
to sniff network traffic. Audit won't be able to help much.

-Steve

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-20 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-20 14:26 Auditing network traffic Lev Stipakov
2016-01-20 15:18 ` Steve Grubb
2016-01-20 15:29   ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2016-01-20 18:05     ` F Rafi
2016-01-20 18:30       ` Steve Grubb
2016-01-21  9:49     ` Lev Stipakov
2016-01-21 16:50       ` Steve Grubb
2016-01-21 20:49         ` Lev Stipakov
2016-01-21 22:09           ` Steve Grubb
2016-01-20 21:40 ` Paul Moore
2016-01-21  5:19 ` Peter Moody

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