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[archie1810]

Hello all,

I'm not sure whether this request is possible to be done.
I'm not really Linux oriented person yet, so far I'm following some DNS-323 Wikis site to walk through 

@ Home... I'm using my DNS-323 as the DHCP IP Provider for my LAN at home instead of from my wireless router... This makes life simpler so far, as I have my DNS-323 up and running almost all the time (except power outage)... 

The problem is, I have my children whom usually comes home with their school friends whose laptops usually connected to my network and might have access (or accessing their school projects) into my Network and apparently goes to my NAS where their school projects stored... This for sure may grab a new IP address from my DNS-323's DHCP once their laptops connected to my Wireless/Wired LAN.

I need to monitor these newly release/use IP address from my DHCP pool in DNS-323, either by simple an SMTP email alert to my BlackBerry or anything simpler than this...

Does anybody come across with this called "DHCP IP Monitoring Tools" that could perhaps run from DNS-323 or my other DNS-320 NAS or even my Windows gateway (Atom) machine?

Thanks in advance... any suggestion/advice would be much appreciated.

BR - Arc.

[archie1810]

Any advice pls? 

[fordem]

The truth is I fail to see the advantage of using the DNS-323 as your DHCP server - you say if makes life simpler ... as you have the DNS-323 up & running almost all the time.  The DNS-323 has to connect to some concentrator which also has to be up and running, and in a typical home network, this is the switch that's integrated into the router - isn't your router up & running too?

Most consumer IT product is built to fill a particular need, with a feature set designed around that need - add too many features and the cost goes up, and you can no longer price your product competitively.  The DNS-323 is no different - it was designed for a SOHO network where there would be a router to handle DHCP, and it has a very primitive DHCP server of it's own, to enable it to be used on a network without a router and internet access.

You can use the control features in your router to manage who can connect to your LAN and to monitor what ip addresses are issued - assuming of course that you use the products for the task they were designed for.

[Wiggs]

I agree with fordem here:  I would not use the DHCP on the DNS-323.  This is a task better suited for your network router.  It is possible, depending on your hardware, that the capability that you are looking for is already included with the router firmware.

I really can only think of very few scenarios that the DHCP for the DNS-323 is useful and this does not appear to be one of them.


Regards,


Wiggs