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Author Topic: SOLVED: all devices hooked up to my router copied to a CSV log file  (Read 8191 times)

traupmann

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Basically, all devices hook up to my router, their MAC address, type of device, time
Comma separated values to drop into Excel.
Polling could be done at intervals requested 1 min, 5 min, ??, 1 hr, etc.
Any more would be great.

Great for finding late night intruders

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Hi, traupmann, and welcome to the DonationCoder site.  Regarding your request, what are you expecting to be polled?  Your router?  The network itself?  Keep in mind that most (all?) home-style routers are not designed to be polled for their data.

traupmann

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Precisely.  One would think that the local network could be polled, but I am unaware of the difficulty.  My idea is to have a program that would poll the range of addresses the router addresses locally and see what is connected.  Is this rather variable throughout the router world? 

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SoftPerfect Network Scanner

C:\> netscan.exe /hide /auto:"c:\desktop\result.csv"

As it says right in the docs ;)

Just add it as a scheduled task to Windows.

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What logging options does you router have? Many can report various events to a syslog server ... So if you syslog DHCP events (assuming your router handles DHCP), that should catch most network visitors.

traupmann

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Well, thank all of you for your insights. 

The router log should be capable of being manipulated into what I am looking for. 


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traupmann, would you like this thread marked as solved or did you still need further help with your request?

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Mark this baby solved, I wish life had this simple of answers in every case!