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Re: Airport base station logging

Hi Mark

Remember that the cable modem connects you to a broadcast medium similar to a dumb ethernet hub. Unless they've got a lot more intelligent recently, your modem probably won't filter packets, and it certainly won't filter broadcast packets such as ARP requests, NetBEUI and Appletalk broadcasts and so on. Most of them just translate between Ethernet and cable signalling without looking at the packet contents. They rely on your NIC and IP stack to decide whether a specific packet is for you or not, just like an Ethernet LAN without switches.

Your base station is quite likely seeing every packet that's sent on the cable. If so, when the cable gets busy in the evening, your activity light will display all the other user packets. If you can put a packet sniffer on the cable link you'll probably see a whole lot of traffic that's not related to you or your IP or MAC address.

And remember that your traffic can be seen by other cable users in the same way.

--Alan

On Monday, October 7, 2002, at 06:00 am, email@hidden wrote:

Hi,
I was wondering if there a way to get any status information on exactly
the airport base station is doing, as I am wondering if my airport base
station has been hacked into, wirelessly.

I have my air port base station attached to my cable modem directly, as my
cable modem needs to lock on the Ethernet address to work.

What's happening, is usually during the late evening I notice that my base
station left light is blinking quite a lot, and the data light on the cable
modem is blinking too, like while I am sending data down, but all my
computers are off, so I know its not me.

I have setup, so all my Ethernet address are locked in to the base station,
but this doesn't make any differences. Also the phone line isn't attached so
there no dial-in going on.

I was wondering if I can tell what the base station is doing, and maybe what
IP address is allocated to what Ethernet address. Is there anyway to log
what the thing is doing ????.

I know in previous airport base stations software, there was a util to
monitor the signal strength, but this isn't there anymore.

Any Ideas anyone ???

Thanks
Mark.
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