Re: Airport base station logging
Re: Airport base station logging
- Subject: Re: Airport base station logging
- From: Alan Hart <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 11:23:49 +0100
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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