Control external FTP users ?

[Miata]

I'm running the WL500W as FTP-server (external HDD) which can be reached from the internet.
Does anybody know how you can see that somebody is connected to the HDD ?

[wpte]

I'm running the WL500W as FTP-server (external HDD) which can be reached from the internet.
Does anybody know how you can see that somebody is connected to the HDD ?

When you're on oleg/ddwrt/openwrt/tomato firmware you could execute the command:

netstat -an | grep ESTABLISHED

it will return the active alive connections of any kind to your router

if you're on the original firmware, I guess you can't see any more than the logs of someone logging in.

[Miata]

Thx for your reply.
I'm running the original firmware and logging does not even show that somebody logged in
It seems Oleg did a better job.

[wpte]

Thx for your reply.
I'm running the original firmware and logging does not even show that somebody logged in
It seems Oleg did a better job.

no logging at all?
you could also try to do that command via the web interface of the original firmware: http://ip-of-your-router/Main_AdmStatus_Content.asp
it gives you a console where you can execute the code

when someone is logged in you will see something like:

tcp      469      0 192.168.1.1:21        192.168.1.30:53489     ESTABLISHED

everywhere it says something like "192.168.1.1:21" it's an ftp connection (port 21)