Hello,
I have a little problem here and I'm not sure how to solve it on the mac. I work for a small ISP and we recently got word that one of our users is pirating copyrighted material and we need to tell him to stop it. Unfortunately its kind of hard to find out who he is due to the way our network works. We use a wireless system to provide broadband internet to users in rural areas, our equipment uses private IP addressing to like our unites together, then a public DHCP server hands out public IPs to the individual unites, but the private network is transparent to the public network, so there is no way to get a mapping between the public ip and the private ips.
What I need to do is get on the public network and see if I can find out who has the ip that is downloading copyright protected material. I have wireshark installed but as you know that doesn't see packets that aren't going to my macbooks mac address. What I need to do (I think) is give my macbook a new Mac address, get into the router's arp table and start seeing the packets they are getting for any information that will help me track them down. I know some tools to us on a PC but the idea of hooking a windows PC directly to the internet is a scary prospect, I would much rather do it on my mac.
Any ideas?
I have a little problem here and I'm not sure how to solve it on the mac. I work for a small ISP and we recently got word that one of our users is pirating copyrighted material and we need to tell him to stop it. Unfortunately its kind of hard to find out who he is due to the way our network works. We use a wireless system to provide broadband internet to users in rural areas, our equipment uses private IP addressing to like our unites together, then a public DHCP server hands out public IPs to the individual unites, but the private network is transparent to the public network, so there is no way to get a mapping between the public ip and the private ips.
What I need to do is get on the public network and see if I can find out who has the ip that is downloading copyright protected material. I have wireshark installed but as you know that doesn't see packets that aren't going to my macbooks mac address. What I need to do (I think) is give my macbook a new Mac address, get into the router's arp table and start seeing the packets they are getting for any information that will help me track them down. I know some tools to us on a PC but the idea of hooking a windows PC directly to the internet is a scary prospect, I would much rather do it on my mac.
Any ideas?