using my network can i find out what is going through it??

using my network can i find out what is going through it ie if someone is using my wirless network can i see what they are using it for ??

can i keep an eye on what is being sent over the internet on my other comp in the other room ?? with out me having to go to the other room to look at the comp ?

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aussie bongo
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Yes, you can do that.

There are several applications that can help you deal with this.For example, you can use a network snnifer, to see what's goin on with your network. Some Wireless routers have a status log, where you can see the internal ip, the external ip, the port that's been used, the protocol, and some other things...

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boris

Depends on what you're expecting to see. If you want to see what's on the other screen, then no network tool will do that. You'd need to have remote desktop, vnc or some other tool installed and configured on it in order to 'see the screen'. If you just want to watch what packets are going across the airwaves then you could use something like the 'ethereal' program.

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It's a packet sniffer and it'll let you capture the raw packets and then examine them. It won't reassemble complete web pages or pictures. But it'll show you things like what domain names are being sought, mail sessions (or at least parts of them) and more.

The better question is WHY do you want to do this? What are you trying to watch and why? There are other tools available but their costs and complexities might not make them practical. But you'd have to explain what you're after first.

-Bill Kearney

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Bill Kearney

"Bill Kearney" hath wroth:

Of course, if the original poster had bothered to disclose the maker and model of his wireless router, the guesswork could be minimized.

I sniff my traffic regularly to keep an eye on what's moving over the neighborhood LAN. I use Log Viewer 2.1 SP1

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the purpose. I supports a limited subset of Linksys hardware, which are able to send syslog entries as SNMP traps. The WRT54G running alternative software with SNMP enabled can allegedly do this, but I can't remember how I did it.

For some others, I use LinkLogger ($50):

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Both display the URL's accessed by various connections which is all I really need to figure out what they're doing. The only problem is that neighbors aspiring delinquent is now surfing via a content filtering proxy server, which keeps him off the porno sites. I can't tell what he's browsing as the log viewer shows the proxy server site for everything.

Oh lovely. Log viewer shows that I'm being probed and possibly attacked by a local ISP's DNS server. Now what?

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Jeff Liebermann

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