monitoring IP traffic

[Mike Klinke]

On Saturday 20 August 2005 06:36, Claude Jones wrote:
> I can't seem to engage my brain on this. It's a simple task on my
> Windows firewall, and I'm sure it's the same on Fedora. I would
> like to do two things, neither of which I have been able to
> figure out. 1) Pull up a log and look at recent traffic - what's
> passing, what's been denied
> 2) Open a window that shows this 'live' - in other words, execute
> some command that leads to the outside world, and watch what the
> firewall does What are the appropriate tools?
> --
> Claude Jones
> Bluemont, VA, USA


In addition to the iptables that Rakotomandimby mentioned, spend 
some time with tcpdump, iptraf, and ethereal for live packet 
captures.

Regards, Mike Klinke