Feature request du jour: filter DHCP log entries

[RocketJSquirrel]

RMerlin, I know you're continually fielding random feature requests. I'll throw mine out there, just this once, in case it turns out to be easy and appealing.

My RT-N66U log file consists at least 90% of DHCPREQUEST and DHCPACK. These aren't terribly interesting when the device is one of my known devices. It would be nice to filter these log entries by MAC address, so that only unknown, alien devices would appear.

The logger would have to compare each MAC address against a user-supplied list of known addresses, and only spew the log entry if there were no match.

Thanks for your consideration.

 

[RMerlin]

RMerlin, I know you're continually fielding random feature requests. I'll throw mine out there, just this once, in case it turns out to be easy and appealing.

My RT-N66U log file consists at least 90% of DHCPREQUEST and DHCPACK. These aren't terribly interesting when the device is one of my known devices. It would be nice to filter these log entries by MAC address, so that only unknown, alien devices would appear.

The logger would have to compare each MAC address against a user-supplied list of known addresses, and only spew the log entry if there were no match.

Thanks for your consideration.

A user-configurable list would involve a lot of work for something that would be only very rarely used.

I recently implemented the option to disable DHCP requests entirely - this should be enough for 99% of users.