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tuna_ertemalp's avatar
Jul 24, 2019
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New Idea

Include the "friendly name" of the MAC address in the LOGs

I have my LOGs from my Orbi router emailed to me at 3am every morning. So, this is an actual use request...

 

There are many lines every night in my LOG, given that I have 25-35 devices on my home network (and set to only increase), that are some form of "[DHCP IP: 192.168.1.47] to MAC address 91:e9:33:fd:ab:77, Wednesday, July 24, 2019 08:08:30"

 

I always find myself doing a COPY of the MAC address included in that LOG line, like "91:e9:33:fd:ab:77" (which is fake, by the way, for the pruposes of this post), go to Attached Devices, Access Control, and then SEARCH on the webpage for that MAC address by PASTE, since I want to know which device on my network just got a DHCP renewal. But since that information is already known to the Router, I think making it part of the LOG entry would be awesome, like "[DHCP IP: 192.168.1.47] to MAC address 91:e9:33:fd:ab:77 (Apple AirPort Extreme Livingroom), Wednesday, July 24, 2019 08:08:30".

 

Thanks

Tuna

 

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