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I ran into a problem today where a remote M0n0wall is--I think--being blocked from getting DHCP because a Comcast CDV device memorized the MAC address of the Ubuntu laptop that was used to test the Internet connection. It's kind of hard to tell for sure though... It would be *really* helpful if some info and stats about the WAN DHCP & IPA (& other details as appropriate to WAN connection type) was added right around the LAN IPA on the console. Or maybe a new option 7 could display a full interface stats page, updated every few seconds, until exited, or something. That'd be really helpful, though possibly tricky to fit onto an 80x24 screen if you have lots of interfaces. This is really ugly, but...better than nothing. Status | DHCP | MAC | IPv4 | G/W | IPv6 | ISP DNS | Media | In/Out Pack | In/Out Err | Coll -------------------------------------------------- WAN | up | up | 00:00:00:00:00:00 | 100.100.100.100/255.255.255.255 100.100.100.100 | 0000::0000:0000:0000:0000%0000/64 71.242.0.12, 71.252.0.12 | 100baseTX <full-duplex> 10240924/9067624 (2.11 GB/1.62 GB) | 0/0 | 0 LAN | up | up | ... ... ... ... OPT1 | up | up | ... ... ... ... OPT2 | up | up | ... ... ... ... Or maybe instead of trying to break records at the same place and where they fit, the header and each interface is a single line, and it wraps where it wraps and too bad... Status | DHCP | MAC | IPv4 | G/W | IPv6 | ISP DNS | Media | In/Out Pack | In/Out Err | Coll --------------------------------------------------------------------- WAN | up | up | 00:00:00:00:00:00 | 100.100.100.100/255.255.255.255| 100.100.100.100 | 0000::0000:0000:0000:0000%0000/64 | 71.242.0.12, 71.252.0.12 | 100baseTX <full-duplex> | 10240924/9067624 (2.11 GB/1.62 GB) | 0/0 | 0 LAN | up | up | ... OPT1 | up | up | ... OPT2 | up | up | ... I'm aware the the web GUI has all the info I could ask for in Status::Interfaces, but I was dealing with the Comcast tech over the phone, and "turn on the monitor labeled firewall" was about the most high-tech I could get. Walking him through the web GUI was out of the question for several reasons too boring to go into. Food for thought anyway. Thanks, JP ----------------------------|:::======|------------------------------- JP Vossen, CISSP |:::======| http://bashcookbook.com/ My Account, My Opinions |=========| http://www.jpsdomain.org/ ----------------------------|=========|------------------------------- "Microsoft Tax" = the additional hardware & yearly fees for the add-on software required to protect Windows from its own poorly designed and implemented self, while the overhead incidentally flattens Moore's Law. |