Probably silly Q

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings all;

My router has the ability to send access logs to an ip address, which is 
assignable.

My thoughts are to setup a virtual eth0:1 at an unused local addresss in 
the 192.168.1 block, and simply copy everything that comes into that 
port off to a logfile, plugging that logfile into logrotates schedule 
and thereby keeping a log for forensic purposes.

I've tried the usual culprits, like cat </dev/eth0:1, or dd 
if=/dev/eth0:1 but neither of those seems to work, lack of a device, 
and sure enough when I look in /devs on that old RH7.3 box, there are 
no eth* entries.

I'm probably in one of those situations where I can't see the tree for 
all this forest in the way, so could someone toss me a clue please?

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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