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LanceBaynes
Asked: 2011-01-24 12:17:24 +0800 CST

OpenWrt logging: how to find out "wifi deauthentication"

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If someone starts to use the wifi, i can see that with logread:

Jan 23 21:04:47 router daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX IEEE 802.11: authenticated

But how can i see, that he/she's disconnecting? Theres no "bla-bla deauthenticated bla" line in logread, or even a thing that points to that someone get's disconnected..

I tried to google:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/system
But it doesn't writes about loglevel.

Can anyone help me find out, how to find out that someone disconnects it's wifi from the router? The logread doesn't even writes a line when someone disconnects.

Please help!! It's important!
Thank you!:\

linux logging openwrt

3 Answers

  1. config wifi-device 'radio0'
        option log_level '0'

    ... works at least in openwrt trunk (as of today).

    To check:

    grep log /var/run/hostapd*conf
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  2. Try edit /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf:

    logger_syslog=-1
logger_syslog_level=0
logger_stdout=-1
logger_stdout_level=0
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  3. I see lines like this in my log file which at least indicate there's been no activity:

    Aug  1 16:31:25 OpenWrt1 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA f8:1e:00:00:00:00 IEEE 802.11: disassociated
Aug  1 16:31:26 OpenWrt1 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA f8:1e:00:00:00:00 IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to inactivity
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