Re: Airport base station logging
Re: Airport base station logging
- Subject: Re: Airport base station logging
- From: <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 11:00:37 +0100
- Organization: Coderus Ltd
Yes, the data light is blinking away, about the same time as the blinking
light on the airport base station.
The cable modem is a Terayon TJ120, if that helps any.
Mark.
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One of the members of the Airport engineering team, indicated that
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he's seen the continuous light activity when attached to a cable
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modem connection.
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I wonder whether you see any network activity on the Ethernet portion
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of the connection?
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As for the extra features to the Airport Base Station, this has been
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logged as an enhancement request and the team is investigating them.
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rich kubota
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At 9:37 PM +0100 10/7/02, email@hidden wrote:
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> I have registered the MAC address, but when I marked it as closed, adding a
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> password and WEP, but then I had problems with getting wireless PC cards, so
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> I left that with just registered MAC addressed.
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> I have also wondered if maybe my ISP is ping-ing the base station, to see if
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> they can use the IP address maybe ???, but seems quite continuous.
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> I agree about the extra feature(s) to airport base station, as there is no
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> reporting stats for it, which is a major hole in my books, compared to other
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> hubs. Hopefully we'll have it soon ??? (I hope Apple is listening :-) ), I
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> have a couple of months ago asked for better reporting features, cannot
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> remember the radar bug number.
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> 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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>>
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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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>>>
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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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