RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Internet trace

["Spurling, Shannon" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

When you say monitoring, what do you mean exactly?
Is someone recording the throughput on your data flow in and out of your connection? Probably.
 
Is someone recording the destination of each one of the connections you make from your workstation to somewhere else? Maybe, for about half an hour, but nobody cares. Data like that is recorded and reduced to provide traffic statistics for determining what protocols and other things are in use. It helps determine intrusions and compromised machines and sources of spam and worm infections. After half an hour, most all of that data is destroyed because it has to be compressed and condensed down into more useful and archivable forms. This kind of data is a side effect of most modern high end packet switching tecniques. 
 
Is someone mirroring your IP packets to a sniffer? Probably not. Sniffers and mirrored switch ports are normaly used for limited troubleshooting and intrusion detection. Why? because so much data is generated on a well populated LAN segment that it's almost impossible to run one long term and record it all in a useable form. In order for something like that to be a security risk for you, you would have to be targeted. Is there a way to tell? No. Not at all. All of these are data duplication tecniques, and there is no change in the original packet. If you don't want to be monitored, use IPSec and https.
 
Shannon

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	any idea how i will be able to monitor if some one is monitoring my internet 
	conection 


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