Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Linksys Router?

I have a Linksys Router, and I was wondering if there was anyway I can check the history of what people using my wirless internet are viewing? Is this possible, and if it is how do I do it? And will I just see the website name, or will I be able to actually look at what they were looking at on the page? (like if they were looking at yahoo answers, would I see what questions they looked at?)





Thanks!|||Log into your router, click on Admimistration and enable logging.





You only see the IP address of the incoming and outgoing data, not the NAME of the Web service.|||The router keeps no logs of any kind.|||If you log into the router you will find a section somewhere to enable logging. Then you will be able to press the view log button to see the web sites that the router has served pages for. Often they will only be IP addresses, and not even names of sites. You will NOT be abel to actually view the web pages.





It also will not show you a history... ONLY from the point you turn on the logging, and even then it's a very limited history.





(They keep changing the menus with each firmware release, so you'll have to look around to find the logging section... Possibly under administrative tools.)|||Home routers don't have that kind of capability. You would need a port sniffer like WireShark to collect that kind of information|||check out





http://dd-wrt.com





If your particular router is supported by their open source firmware, then you can upgrade to their firmware and follow the following instructions to log all network traffic! :)





http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Using_RFlow_Collector_and_MySQL_To_Gather_Traffic_Information

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