RE: open hotspot but preventing abuse

Most boxes support SNMP and you could monitor and create a log from the
routing table and there is a couple of other tables that have a list of the
most recently used IP's. It's not perfect but would give you an idea anyhow.
:-)

Cheers

-----Original Message-----
From: fogo-admin@impressive.net [mailto:fogo-admin@impressive.net] On Behalf
Of Olivier Thereaux
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 7:32 PM
To: fogo@impressive.net
Subject: Re: open hotspot but preventing abuse

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005, Joseph Reagle wrote:
> i like to be friendly and keep my hotspot open, but would like a log of
how
> many people use it, if some are using a disproportionate amount of
> bandwidth, and if so, what for...?

With a "normal" router, one way to go would be IPFM, but with a
closed-box wireless router, it's a little harder. You could put a linux
box with ipfm between the wireless basestation and the outside world. I
wonder, in fact, if you cannot just set any machine on the wireless
network as promisc, and monitor what everyone does... I think I remember
some people doing that.

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olivier