Rotating Packet Captures with pfSense, (Wed, Feb 1st)

Having a new pfSense firewall in place gives some opportunities to do a bit more with the device. Maintaining some full packet captures was an item on my “to do” list. The last 24 hours is usually sufficient for me since I’m usually looking at alerts within the same day. I decided to do rotating packet captures based on file size. This allows me to capture packets, saving files of a specific size and keeping a specified number of files. …

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