Re: Help logging activity from a Linksys box
On 3/25/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 25 March 2006 06:47, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> >I have a Linksys BEFSR81 and am trying to capture its incoming and
> >outgoing logs to my debian box. I've searched www.google and
> >groups.google and have tried the various things mentioned, but still
> >can't get the logs captured to a file.
Ignore my previous followup question. Having reviewed the logs,
things are actively getting captured.
Thanks!
Scott
> >
> >What files and configurations of said files am I missing to get things
> > going?
>
> I think what you're referring to is 'snmptrapd', which is installed on
> some systems already but apparently not enabled by default. If logging
> is enabled in the router, then this utility will capture that logging
> output to a file in /var/log/snmptrapd.log. It was part of the rh7.3
> install that I use for a firewall, and all I had to do was start it. As
> it logs the src and dest address and port #'s of all traffic, it will
> generate a sizable log if you are running a BT client. This info, in
> my case from a BEFSR41, contains a lot of what I'd call extrainious
> information IMNSHO, easily quadrupling the size of the log.
>
> You'll also need to figure out a way to incorporate the log rotation
> tasks for it.
>
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Scott
>
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