Re: Airport base station logging
Re: Airport base station logging
- Subject: Re: Airport base station logging
- From: Peter John Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 15:03:53 -0400
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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