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Ability to read traffic
Hi All I am attempting to find any log on the router that show me all the traffic in and out of the router. I can see the very basic logs are but it doesn't provide enough information. Can some ...
Many Netgear routers have a "debug" option which will capture every packet on the WAN interface.
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i.e. open <IP of router>/debut.htm
I found that my Orbi router did not capture enough data to be useful, so my solution (Geek Alert) was to:
- Place a 'managed' Ethernet switch between the router and ISP modem.
- Connect the router WAN interface to Port 1 of the switch.
- Connect the ISP modem to Port 2 ot the switch.
- Mirror port 1 of the switch to Port 3 of the switch (for both "in" and "out")
- Connect Port 3 of the switch to an Ethernet port on my PC
- Open Wireshark on the PC to record everything that appeared on that Ethernet adapter.
One time, I wanted to document the DHCP behavior of my ISP over an entire week. Realizing that this long of a data capture would be many gigabytes, I defined a Wireshark capture filter to record only DHCP (both v4 and v6). After a week, it became clear that my ISP issued DHCP leases of one day for IPv4 and one week for IPv6.
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