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I'm looking for consumer router / firmware recommendations with reasonably robust remote URL / hostname logging & reporting functionality.
Most logging functionality I've seen is terrible - reporting only IP addresses, not rolling up reports or reporting any useful statistics. The logs are also often limited to merely the last few minutes/hours when handling high-traffic loads.
Bonus points for providing a screenshot of the log reporting interface!
You can use several different routers with the DD-WRT router firmware (List of supported devices here. For examples of some of the logging options you have, check out this wiki article. It does include a screenshot, but the data actually is stored in a mysql database on your PC, so I think the time that you can log will be pretty large, depending on how much space you are willing to sacrifice.
You can have your DD-WRT router send traffic information to a PC on your network and then store the information in a MySQL database that you can search. This can tell you a lot about the traffic on your network.
It seems to me that you need the right tool, not the right router. If your router supports SNMP you can use any one of a bazillion tools to poll it. I like PRTG myself.
