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Old WNR2000v2/3 - possible to monitor traffic?
Hi, As the title states. I'd like to monitor and block traffic on my ancient WNR2000v2 or WNR2000v3 (I haev both) Netgear wireless routers. The blocking works, and I've selected to log any attemp...
Monitor traffic? Like per device bandwidth usage? or what monitoring are you wanting?
Because there really isn't much on those devices and it seems like you're doing what you can.
They're also both not-gigabit. They're slow/ancient routers that were released over a decade ago.
If you're wanting more monitoring, I'd look at either building your own router or picking up one that supports those features. netgear hasn't been the greatest at device specific monitoring in their consumer gear so I probably wouldn't go that route. Unless you pick up something that supports ddwrt (the wnr2000v3 does but not well)
Thank you for your reply. Not bandwidth usage but request/response traffic. I want to monitor an IoT device on my network to see what it's doing exactly. So if I can monitor its MAC address or local IP address and see what IPs it's trying to communicate with, it would be really helpful.
It's fine if they are slow. Gigabit speed is not necessary nor required.
It's confusing because the WNR routers both have options for blocking and logging, but they don't seem to work.
I don't know what "ddwrt" is but I will look into that. Thank you!