subject: How to deploy internet monitoring in a wireless network? [print this page] A wireless local area network (WLAN) links two or more devices using some wireless distribution method (typicallyspread-spectrum orOFDMradio), and usually providing a connection through an access point to the wider internet. This gives users the mobility to move around within a local coverage area and still be connected to the network.
Wireless LANs have become popular in the home due to ease of installation, and the increasing popularity oflaptop computers. Public businesses such as coffee shops and malls have begun to offer wireless access to their customers; sometimes for free.
Wireless communication brings fundamental changes to data networking and telecommunications. Nowadays, more and more organizations and home users build up wireless networks. And in many situations, wired networks and wireless networks exist together. This topic demonstrates two solutions to monitor wireless networks internet activities.
1. Deployment with a cable router.
A typical network contains both wired and wireless networks:
To monitor both the wired network and the wireless network, we add a TPlink port mirror switch TL-SL2210WEB between the router and wireless AP.
Port1 of it is connected to the router, port2 connected to WFilter and port3 connected to the wireless Access Point.
The port mirror configuration is as below:
By now, you can monitor all the wired and wireless computers.
2. Deployment with a proxy server.
As in the below figure, by setting up a proxy server and install WFilter in the proxy server, computers using this proxy server to access internet will all be monitored. Please refer to "Deploy WFilter with a Proxy Server" for more information.
How to deploy internet monitoring in a wireless network?
