Posted on 09/13/2010 3:51:27 AM PDT by Blueflag
“Does wallwatcher provide an IP address to IP name facility?”
Yes. it lists the remote IP address and the remote name in the next column for MOST sites. If you want to, you can select and right click an unnamed IP address and “go to it” right from the interface. Most sites are named.
WRT the logging machine. I’ll set up an old tower I use for a file server. Then there’s no issue with “where’s my logger?”
Lastly, if no machine address is set to receive the log, my router just sends the infor to bit heaven.
thanks for your advice and support.
I use: http://www.endian.com/
I setup an older PC to be my router/firewall. It has a transparent proxy that logs everything. You can even watch the log roll real time. Lots of features and its free. Then setup your wireless router to not be a router and just a hub instead.... I do this at home and it works great.
Sounds interesting. But outside of my scope of experience.
Since I am a DSL/IFITL customer, TCP/IP comes in to my house from a ‘modem’ out at the curb.
My router logs in to the ATT DSL account. Then of course all others get in through the sub net.
In your scenario, does the ‘old pc’ connect directly to the DSL TCP/IP cable and maintain the connection, and then via another TCP/IP use the Cisco router/hub as the subnet distributions facility?
IOW, how do it work?
yes, you need a pc with two network cards. One the modem plugs into and the other is your LAN or hub. Its pretty easy setup but with your DSL needing to login might make things interesting. I suspect your DSL . Router wireless thing was provided by your ISP?
Actually the router is a straightforward Linksys/Cisco router/hub. It acts like a PC and logs onto our DSL service, and keep the connection live.
Remember that our DSL is “integrated fibre in the loop” IFITL so TCP/IP comes in to the house from the curb. We don’t use a “DSL modem”.
DD-WRT is firmware for your Linksys wireless router. The firmware opens up the capabilities of your router and provides the ability to log in light and verbose modes.
Play with it, see what you think. The firmware upgrade interface on your Linksys firmware is used to push the DD-WRT BIN file. Read the instructions and enjoy!
In that case, the endian firewall would takes it place and do the same thing except with a lot more features. Your existing hub can still be used as a hub but would have to be reconfigured slightly so it does not give out DHCP addresses and do not use the WAN port on that existing routers as well. Just use the hub ports to link your network and the endian box. Endian is easy to configure... Even for someone who does not know much.
Blueflag -- glad to hear that Wallwatcher worked out.
You realize any competent 12 year old can encrypt their traffic on Tor , Onion, i2p, freenet etc?
On the upside, they’ll be able sidestep corporate security and read FR while at work in the years to come.
And any competent adult can remove their PC privileges ;-)
Bump for later reading/research.
ShadowAce mentioned flashing your router to dd-wrt.
You might try flashing to Tomato router ROM... there is a Tomato plug-in called LinkLogger ....
http://www.polarcloud.com/firmware
It creates real time graphical displays of network traffic...
Read up on your router and it’s compatibility before flashing to either dd-wrt or Tomato. A bad flash possibly turns the router into a paperweight. A good flash takes all of 5 minutes if you are prepared with the correct firmware.
Thx. I’ll investigate both.
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