Re: tcpdump on my firewall

Just curious.. But why wouldn't you want to put tcpdump on your
firewall? This could actually come in handy when diagnosing network
issues that involve your firewall.

If anything.. I could more than likely find literature supporting the
installation of tcpdump on a firewall.

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:51:36PM -0400, hesselsp_at_ashaman.dhs.org wrote:
> Anyone want to help me out here?
>
> I have had a request to put tcpdump on our firewall by one of our tech
> guys.
>
> I have told him that I will not do so, and he wants a good reason why.
>
> Does anyone have a ezine article or some other reference as to why I
> shouldn't put it on?
>
>
>
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