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  • 1.  drop directory for HTTP post

    Trusted Advisor
    Posted Aug 23, 2012 05:55 AM

    Hello,

     

     I used to do some test for network monitor and email policies by putting some .eml file in the drop directory on a network monitor dedicated to our test/validation before deploy them on live platform. It is a nice feature which saves us from incident burst sevral times especially when you have some tricky policies with lot of detection rules and exceptions.

    Is there a way to do the same for HTTP or IM policies ?

     

     Regards.



  • 2.  RE: drop directory for HTTP post
    Best Answer

    Posted Aug 23, 2012 03:42 PM

    Stephane,

    I've never been an expert on the process, but if you search teh forums, this has been covered before. There is a way to take essentially a wireshark capture or a PCAP dump of HTTP traffic and place it in the Drop directory or one of the other directories, that will process the PCAP as if it were live traffic. I vaguely recall it may have involved replaying the PCAP file vs dropping the capture. Some searchign on the forums will likely outline the specifics of the folders to use.

     



  • 3.  RE: drop directory for HTTP post

    Posted Aug 23, 2012 06:28 PM

    for IM policies you can turn this on with a check of the box, AIM, Yahoo MSN are built in.

    Skype is not on the list yet, as for the http traffic i have used a http traffic generator.

    remeber you can do L7 filters via domains subnets or specific ip.



  • 4.  RE: drop directory for HTTP post

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Aug 23, 2012 10:59 PM

    is it drop_pcap?



  • 5.  RE: drop directory for HTTP post

    Posted Aug 24, 2012 12:27 AM

    yes it is



  • 6.  RE: drop directory for HTTP post

    Trusted Advisor
    Posted Aug 24, 2012 02:26 AM

    thanks. I will use drop_pcap.