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by nrfems83

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I am trying to monitor the web sites that are visited on a wireless network. We have dsl into a wireless router to be shared on multiple personal laptops. Its then conected to a work desktop. There is an internet usage policy in force however we know that has not been followed. We could have have up to 4 people using the net at a time. We would like to "monitor" what they are viewing and identify the computers separately as not to acuse the wrong person.

Is there any software that can be used to help with this?

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by nrfems83

Alright, I know this software is well beyond what I need but maybe it can be simplified. I d/l it, running it, but have no idea what I am looking at. It's capturing a bunch of stuff, but I think it is too advanced for me. How do I determine what is a web page and who looked at it?

by older mycroft

It is rather well written and includes the answers to all the other questions you haven't posted with yet.

You can find it at the top of the WireShark screen as a drop down menu under [u][b]H[/u][/b]elp. ;)

by revolvercube

It can be quite an information overload at first but it does everything you need it to do, havent tried wireless monitoring with it but having a network hub inbetween your network and internet connection helps it capture all data packets, you can then track down who did what by checking their IP used at the time via logs.
Alternatively if your router has snmp you can use that, i think you can also feed the snmp log into wireshark

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