Craig,
as far as I know there are plans to add support for saving CALEA information to external drive.
As well as far as I know you do not need to store CALEA information all the time 24/7/365, or I’m wrong ?
Of course small hard-drive could not be enough to store all the information, so that’s why you can consider about installing CALEA server to router, where large hard drive is used.
I would like the ability to store calea on a second hard drive. Is that possible? I don’t want to have to re-install routerOS just to get more hard disk capacity if needed for unknown calea needs.
As well as far as I know you do not need to store CALEA information all the time 24/7/365, or I’m wrong ?
Yes, you must store all information all of the time 24/7/365 once a lawful intercept is presented. You must perform one of the two different types of intercepts for the duration of the request presented in the lawful intercept request. At the end of the duration of the intercept request, you must continue to store the data - though I don’t remember what the required duration is. Something like 90 or 120 days I think.
This means you either capture TCP/IP headers ONLY, or the FULL data stream. Both types of intercept requests are defined in the CALEA rules.
For a case where a lawful intercept request is made for the FULL TCP/IP stream of a customer, if they are doing much traffic that can add up very fast; especially consider if the intercept request is for 30-60 days! This could easily result in dozens of gigabytes of data.
I would really, really like to be able to store CALEA captures on a secondary hard drive, I have emailed support about this and am awaiting an answer.
The situation I have is that I’ve got ROS running off of a CF drive (for reliability) and would like to store CALEA captures on the freshly installed 320GB ATA drive.
Worst case, if ROS can’t do it, I’ll make the feature request then just install ROS on the hard drive; but I really would prefer having my system on CF and then only data stored on the HD. Then, when the HD isn’t in use, the system can just power it down
on May 5, 2006, a group of higher education and library organizations led by the American Council on Education (ACE) challenged that ruling, arguing that the FCC’s interpretation of CALEA was unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment. However, on June 9, 2006, the D.C. Circuit Court disagreed and summarily denied the petition (American Council on Education vs. FCC, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Decision 05-1404, June 9, 2006).
