<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Utilities</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Linksys Blue Box Router HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Hacking the software" HREF="x207.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Troubleshooting tips" HREF="ts-tips.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Linksys Blue Box Router HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x207.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="ts-tips.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="Utilities" ></A >8. Utilities</H1 ><P >There is a Unix utility called <SPAN CLASS="application" >linksysmon</SPAN > that talks with these boxes via SNMP. Look at the <A HREF="http://woogie.net/projects/linksysmon/" TARGET="_top" >Linksysmon project site</A >.</P ><P >Linksysmon is a tool for monitoring Linksys BEFSR41 and BEFSR11 firewalls under Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. It accepts log messages from the Linksys, and logs the messages to <TT CLASS="filename" >/var/log/linksys.log</TT >. It handles the standard activity logs, as well as the <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"secret"</SPAN > extended logging, and can handle logs from multiple firewalls. When using extended logging, it can detect external IP address changes (if you are using either DHCP or PPPOE) and can call an external program to process the change.</P ><P >Link-n-Log is a similar tool that includes a GUI and logs to an SQL database. Details at the <A HREF="http://link-n-log.sourceforge.net/" TARGET="_top" >Link-n-Log project page</A >.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x207.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ts-tips.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Hacking the software</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Troubleshooting tips</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >