I want to be able to monitor the activities of people using my home
network.  I am only interested in those products that can function at
the LAN level rather than on the individual machines.  Products that
require the installation of software on the end users machine are not
going to meet my needs.

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Request for Question Clarification by livioflores-ga on 11 Apr 2006 09:47 PDT

If you don't want to install anything on the end users machines I
guess you will can monitor traffic on your network (Internet usage,
may site visited, and network activities like file sharing) only. Is
this what are you looking for?

Regards,
livioflores-ga

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Clarification of Question by jmhines123-ga on 11 Apr 2006 10:06 PDT

Well, I am hoping to find something that will let me monitor what
sites they visit and also do keystroke capturing.

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Request for Question Clarification by livioflores-ga on 11 Apr 2006 13:51 PDT

To do a keystroke capture you need to install a program on the  other
machines. Let me know  if you want info regarding that.

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Clarification of Question by jmhines123-ga on 12 Apr 2006 04:47 PDT

No thanks, I am aware of the wide range of products that can be
installed on each machine.

you can always install a hardware keycapture
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5a05/

Unless you install a real Internet gateway computer, you're going to
find it hard to monitor what happens on a computer.

I can monitor most sites with a firewall such as smoothwall.org. It
runs on a separate computer that provides internet to the rest of the
LAN.

As an aside, I've turned on my logging on my router and can see all
incoming and outgoing traffic through the router's logging program,
but since it's all IP traffic, it's not necessarily very user
friendly.

Besides all this, if you can't install software on your home's
workstations, even if you put a proxy server on your network that
monitors connections, you'll have to make certain that your users
aren't going to bypass all of that and start using their own proxies
outside of your LAN.

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