Monitor Your Home Network: A How-To Guide to Monitoring a Small, Private Network by Chris Fauerbach

Author:Chris Fauerbach [Fauerbach, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:6b:ea:be

inet addr:192.168.1.16 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe6b:eabe/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:589 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:58390 (58.3 KB) TX bytes:1462 (1.4 KB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback

inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

In my case, eth0 is the wired port and wlan0 is the wi-fi adapter. Exactly what I wanted. Yours may vary. You want to monitor your wired port, and not your wi-fi port.

You need to set your Ethernet adapter to promiscuous mode. Normally, your IP stack/operating system will only allow your software to access packets that were meant for your computer. We want to listen to EVERY packet, regardless of where it was meant, so we need to update a few files.

Find your interfaces file and remove all references to eth0, and replace it with this:

auto eth0

iface eth0 inet manual

up ip address add 0/0 dev $IFACE

up ip link set $IFACE up

up ip link set $IFACE promisc on

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