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Reference Manual for the ADSL Modem Wireless Router DG834G

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Managing Your Network

v1.2, October 2006

Selecting What Information to Log

Besides the standard information listed above, you can choose to log additional information. Those
optional selections are as follows:

Attempted access to blocked site

Connections to the Web-based interface of the modem router

Modem Router operation (start up, get time, etc.)

Known DoS attacks and Port Scans

Saving Log Files on a Server

You can choose to write the logs to a computer running a syslog program. To activate this feature,
select to Broadcast on Lan or enter the IP address of the server where the Syslog file will be
written.

Examples of Log Messages

Following are examples of log messages. In all cases, the log entry shows the timestamp as: Day,
Year-Month-Date Hour:Minute:Second.

Activation and Administration

Tue, 2002-05-21 18:48:39 - NETGEAR activated

[This entry indicates a power-up or reboot with initial time entry.]

Tue, 2002-05-21 18:55:00 - Administrator login successful - IP:192.168.0.2

Thu, 2002-05-21 18:56:58 - Administrator logout - IP:192.168.0.2

[This entry shows an administrator logging in and out from IP address 192.168.0.2.]

Tue, 2002-05-21 19:00:06 - Login screen timed out - IP:192.168.0.2

[This entry shows a time-out of the administrator login.]

Wed, 2002-05-22 22:00:19 - Log emailed

[This entry shows when the log was emailed.]