[woods]

I was wondering if I could flash the firmware in my linksys router to get some more feature out of it. I would like to monitor ALL network traffic across my network. What packets are going to what ip and where they came from. That sort of thing. I know cisco routers can do this and I know they are made by the same company so there may be a way to do this. Is there?

[XWRed1]

A linksys nat appliance can't do that.

Technically, neither can a cisco router.

They plain aren't at the right points in the network.

What you want to do you'd have to have a managed switch. Either build your own, or buy one.

What the Linksys nat appliance *could* do (although I doubt linksys has any firmware that does it) is tell you what connections it is natting, or sniff traffic that it is able to see.

All a Cisco router could do is tell you what packets are getting sent on what routes. The Cisco is a real router, the Linksys is only marketed as one.

[Kendan]

http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/38267


That link is for 3rd party firmware for the linksys WRT54g.

This link is for linux on a linksys WRT54g router:

http://developers.slashdot.org/devel.../1936228.shtml

[willlangford]

Its possible to do. What you need to do is use MRTG, www.mrtg.com its a WIDLY used program that many datacenters use to figure out how much banwidth webservers use etc...

On that website there is a tutorial on how to do it for linksys routers. What you need is a linux box to server as your "webserver/stats server" that will draw the graphs etc.

That should do what you want. We use it at the datacenter where my webserver is and at school on all of our switchs to tackdown network slow downs and dos attacks.

Let me know if that helps you or if you need more help.

~William

..oH! also on that site there are many tutorials on how to install it on many different network devices and you can install its on ANY cisco device.

Good luck, PM if you need more help.