Monitor all incoming connection types?

vikingshelmut

vikingshelmut

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I am curious to find if there are any tools out there that will provide visual notification when somebody tries to connect to my machine over any protocol. For example, I want to find out if somebody is trying to ssh into my machine, or trying to connect to timbuktu, or file sharing. I realize that you can open the system log and see when somebody is trying to connect to say ssh, but I would like to have a window pop up with the port type (ssh, afp, http, etc) and the requesting IP. I don't really want to block these incoming connections, I just want it more obvious when somebody is trying to connect. I have heard people refer to Little Snitch, which is a great program BTW, but it does not monitor incoming connections, only outgoing connections.

Any ideas?
 
Well, the only thing I found that might work is HenWen, which is a Mac OS X GUI for Snort. The only problem is it is so complicated I don't know how to do what I want with it. Anybody have any experience?
 
Hey that's kind of a neat idea for a program actually. Windows users have had this kind of thing for ages, but then again, they've needed it ;)

It would be really easy to do if you happen to run all your services through xinetd, but we're not that lucky unfortunately.
 
vikingshelmut said:
I am curious to find if there are any tools out there that will provide visual notification when somebody tries to connect to my machine over any protocol...
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Well, while you're looking through the internet for something to fit the bill, can't you just use Console and paw over the log files? That's what I do...
 
If I remember correctly OS9 file sharing was able to monitor all incoming connections and would list who it was....I too, would like to know how this is done in OSX
 
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