What is "remote logging" mean from a router?

Question

What is "remote logging" mean from a router?

Answer 1

Most routers have limited memory for "LOG" files.

These files allow for information about who connects, what IPs are issued, what sites are visited, what time users connect and disconnect. Logs can

Alert you when someone on your LAN has tried to access a blocked WAN address.

Be used to Alert you when someone on the Internet has tried to access a blocked address in your LAN.

They can Identify port scans, attacks, and administrative logins.

They Collect statistics on outgoing traffic for administration purposes.

They help assess whether your keyword block rules are excluding the IP addresses you intend.

And much more... but with the LIMITED onboard memory for this, it may not store enough information on the router itself...Thus most routers allow for REMOTE logging.

You setup a computer with LOG files to collect all this data (even in separate files for easy retrival) and store it in files that can be very big!  Linux is excellent for this!

Then on the router, you enable remote logging, put in the IP address for the computer that will store the data and collect days, weeks, years of this information which can be reviewed at anytime!

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

You can access it remotely as long as you have the IP address assigned to the line.

Answer 3

Routers are configurable components

So to configure we need to access its operating system

To access its OS we need to login to the system

Both user and the router dose not have to be at the same place to configure it

The user can remotely connect to the router and set it up