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XBOX LAN ?

I have a small network of xboxes, using a
central switch and becasue all machines have a unique
machine ID, is it possible to write a small utility to identify & track the amount of time that each
unit spent online (xbox live) vs playing local. ?

Here is what I sumise, but i could be wrong....

On StartUp I guess it would have to query all ID's currently on the LAN. How do i do that?

Then track when one goes out to the net (XBox Live) versus just regular Lan Play.. Is this possible?

Shane

kmorris1186

i believe this question is WAY beyond the scope of this whole board! It might be able to be done, if wrote a program to get the MAC address of all the XBoxes (they will all have a similar beginning address, assuming the NIC is made by the same company). Then make a Packet sniffer and have some type of code to determine the difference between Xbox code and PC code.

I think it could be done, but i cant do it. that might actually be a LOT more work then you want to do, just for a program like this.

rbohac

You'll probably need to use something like libpcap (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpcap/) to be able to track what packets are coming from where on your network, however this probably won't work so well on a switched network either.

Since you don't want to track whats going on locally you'll need to track the data transfer between your switch and your router, or only data to and from your router

shaneholmes

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I do want to tack whats going on locally as well

All I have are xboxs on this Lan, with a switch.

My first quest, is it possible to get the Machine ID, or MAC address of each machine currently on the LAN?

My Second Question then would be, if so, is there away to track their usage, both LAN & WAN (XBox Live)?

Shane

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