Re: Airport base station logging
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.
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I have not snmpwalk'd my airport, but it is possible that the airport
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would allow you to dump the cam tables and give you the mac addresses
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that you know about. It would be trivial to then make a program that
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would tell you the number of users connected to your airport, and their
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mac address. I would like apple to add this into the base station admin
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program. We use the lucent ap-2000's at work (we have about 800 access
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points), and their (windows only) software will tell you the names, mac
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addrs, s/n ratio of all the clients connected to the access point, as
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well as the time they have been connected and the number of bytes they
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have transmitted and received.
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If you want to make sure that your airport is not being hacked into, I
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would recommend making it a closed network, with WEP, and using the MAC
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address access lists to explicitly list which airport cards can
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associate with the airport. That would be fairly secure against leeches
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Peter Hill
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Network Engineer
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Carnegie Mellon University
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On Sunday, October 6, 2002, at 04:05 PM, <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I was wondering if there a way to get any status information on
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> exactly
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> the airport base station is doing, as I am wondering if my airport base
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> station has been hacked into, wirelessly.
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>
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> I have my air port base station attached to my cable modem directly,
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> as my
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> cable modem needs to lock on the Ethernet address to work.
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>
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> What's happening, is usually during the late evening I notice that my
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> base
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> station left light is blinking quite a lot, and the data light on the
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> cable
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> modem is blinking too, like while I am sending data down, but all my
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> computers are off, so I know its not me.
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>
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> I have setup, so all my Ethernet address are locked in to the base
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> station,
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> but this doesn't make any differences. Also the phone line isn't
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> attached so
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> there no dial-in going on.
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>
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> I was wondering if I can tell what the base station is doing, and
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> maybe what
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> IP address is allocated to what Ethernet address. Is there anyway to
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> log
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> what the thing is doing ????.
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> I know in previous airport base stations software, there was a util to
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> monitor the signal strength, but this isn't there anymore.
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>
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> Any Ideas anyone ???
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>
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> Thanks
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> Mark.
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