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Re: Airport base station logging


  • Subject: Re: Airport base station logging
  • From: <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 21:37:33 +0100
  • Organization: Coderus Ltd

I have registered the MAC address, but when I marked it as closed, adding a
password and WEP, but then I had problems with getting wireless PC cards, so
I left that with just registered MAC addressed.

I have also wondered if maybe my ISP is ping-ing the base station, to see if
they can use the IP address maybe ???, but seems quite continuous.

I agree about the extra feature(s) to airport base station, as there is no
reporting stats for it, which is a major hole in my books, compared to other
hubs. Hopefully we'll have it soon ??? (I hope Apple is listening :-) ), I
have a couple of months ago asked for better reporting features, cannot
remember the radar bug number.

Mark.

> I have not snmpwalk'd my airport, but it is possible that the airport
> would allow you to dump the cam tables and give you the mac addresses
> that you know about. It would be trivial to then make a program that
> would tell you the number of users connected to your airport, and their
> mac address. I would like apple to add this into the base station admin
> program. We use the lucent ap-2000's at work (we have about 800 access
> points), and their (windows only) software will tell you the names, mac
> addrs, s/n ratio of all the clients connected to the access point, as
> well as the time they have been connected and the number of bytes they
> have transmitted and received.
>
> If you want to make sure that your airport is not being hacked into, I
> would recommend making it a closed network, with WEP, and using the MAC
> address access lists to explicitly list which airport cards can
> associate with the airport. That would be fairly secure against leeches
>
> Peter Hill
> Network Engineer
> Carnegie Mellon University
>
>
> On Sunday, October 6, 2002, at 04:05 PM, <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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