Accessing private information

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chatting it is possible by ethreal it is showing urls and ports but
i think its impossible to check what text and chat what  no no not
possible

On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 18:51, MKlinke wrote:
> On Sunday 06 June 2004 01:10, Rudolf A wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > We have Linux RedHat 9 server (Iptables, NAT, PROXY, etc), which
> > serves as a router for our network.
> >
> > Through that server, network users are chatting by MSN, Yahoo
> > Messenger, ICQ etc... The question is the following.
> >
> > Is it possibility for Linux Administrator, to access to their chat
> > text, to read that information of chatting on the server?.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Rudolf
> 
> Yes, as Ed mentioned, and in addition to monitoring directly on the 
> router all network traffic can also be monitored by any of several 
> intrusion detection systems (snort, for example) that will, by 
> default, flag this type of traffic as potentially dangerous and log 
> all associated traffic to its database for review by the 
> administrator in handy easy-to-read format.
> 
> Regards,  Mike Klinke
>