Windows XP Internet connection sharing logging.
I posted this question to Ask Metafilter and got no real answers yet, and I’m still looking for a solution:
I use the Windows XP Professional Internet Connection Sharing to dish out my DSL access to a couple of people residing in the same location. How do I find just basic log information about this service? It magically dishes out DHCP access to them, but I can’t even find how many IP addresses have been assigned, how many connections are active, and so on.
Ethereal was suggested (I just want the basics), and I’ve tried tools from netstat to ActivePorts. Windows XP actually hides all the connections that are being masqueraded from me. If I ever find an answer I’ll put it here.
derek said,
February 26, 2004 @ 1:27 pm
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q230/1/08.asp&NoWebContent=1
The Icslog.txt file contains all the ICS network activity since the last time you started the computer.
When you restart the computer, the Icslog.txt file is renamed to Icslog.old and a new Icslog.txt file is created.
The article applies to operating systems below 2000/xp, but it might be the same for them as well. I don’t have a machine to try on though.
Luke said,
February 27, 2004 @ 7:32 am
The ICS log is only partially helpful - it still doesn’t show any DHCP leases that are out. Which means I don’t know which connections are valid, which ones my machine assigned, etc.
Thank Christ I can stop these services tonight.
alex said,
April 6, 2008 @ 8:52 am
I was looking for the dhcp leases log too, and i found these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Connection_Sharing
It seems like there aren’t any.