[wplug] linksys, netgear, etc. nat box logging software

Karlos Abel kgreat4 at connecttime.net
Sun Sep 19 13:53:22 EDT 2004


Maybe a Linksys Dubya-T-54G with a nifty little firmware hack could
address your problems a little better?


On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 13:53, John Harrold wrote:
> Sometime in September Alexandros Papadopoulos assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> 
> | Certainly:
> | http://www.google.com/search?q=remote+syslog+server
> | 
> | The question is, does your router support logging to a remote syslog?
> 
> It supports snmp and I've set up snmptrapfmt, but I must admit that the
> information it's logging isn't really meaningful to me. Is there a way
> process this type of thing: 
> 
> 20040919.134240#192.168.0.1#(null)#6#1#327904#[1]
>          SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3955.1.1.0 (OctetString) : @in
>          4.183.152.175 3939 141.158.106.10 445.#[2]
>          SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB::snmpTrapAddress.0 (OctetString) :
>          192.168.0.1#[3] SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB::snmpTrapCommunity.0
>          (OctetString) : public
> 
> into something meaningful. The reason I am curious is that everyonce in a
> while network traffic at home stops and I have to reboot the router in
> order to get it to work. I thought that by logging the snmp stuff I might
> be able to grok the problem. I suppose I'll have to wait until it locks up
> again and see what the log says, if anything.
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