[Gllug] [OT] Routers that log

neil chambers neil at cozyspace.net
Thu Apr 28 10:02:15 UTC 2005


Tom says:

>Sorry it's OT. My colleague is resisting the idea of a (linux) proxy and
>thinks we can get an ADSL router that logs all outbound connections. 
>
>Some Netgear wireless routers can log to a syslog server, but they only
>log inbound connections, people trying to access sites that've been
>banned, etc.
>
>Has anyone come across a router that will log outbound traffic to
>syslog?
>
>Slightly more on topic, the Netgear routers are linux-based, and are
>theoretically modifiable, but I'm too chicken & ignorant...
>
>Regards,
>Tom SW
>
I'm using a linksys WRT54G with firmware from www.sveasoft.com. The 
linksys firmware is based on busybox and the sveasoft modified public 
release (free) includes syslogd (so you can send the log messages to 
another host if you want). I'm very happy with it :-)

Neil
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