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| Thread ID: 120099 | 2011-08-25 01:38:00 | Broadband usage monitoring | wratterus (105) | Press F1 |
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| 1225865 | 2011-08-25 01:38:00 | I know this has been talked about plenty on here, but I'll ask again, get the most up to date info and all that. :) Got a client who is having trouble with high broadband usage - 14gb a day and that kind of thing, when they aren't really doing anything too intensive. I'm keen to put a router in place that is able to monitor usage, and also tell which machines on the network have been causing the traffic. Got an Asus WL-520GU here already so hopefully we could use that. The main issue I can see is there are port forwards for Africa currently set up, and also a VPN tunnel running. Main questions are - 1 - What is the best firmware for this and will it run on the Asus WL-520GU 2 - It getting the port forwards and VPN working going to be a hassle Thanks heaps! |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1225866 | 2011-08-25 01:52:00 | What's the VPN tunnel for? That could be using a lot of data depending on what's going through it. | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1225867 | 2011-08-25 02:00:00 | Communicating between two offices - they don't use it for a lot though, think it's mainly sharing a few files, word docs and the like. And if it is the VPN using the traffic at least we'll know! :p |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1225868 | 2011-08-25 23:14:00 | bump? | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1225869 | 2011-08-25 23:29:00 | Gargoyle. 'nuff said ;) Flash gargoyle_1.4.0-brcm47xx-squashfs.trx |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1225870 | 2011-08-26 01:11:00 | Righto, thanks. Just flashed that now. :) How would you normally configure it? Basically want it to monitor usage, and be able to see which machines on the network are doing what traffic, and allow port forwards etc through. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1225871 | 2011-08-26 01:36:00 | The same way you'd configure any other router to do port-forwards ;) Seriously though, try this, this will give you a per-device bandwidth limit which you can then view later on in the week and see how much traffic each device has done: Login to the router and go Firewall --> Quotas Applies to All Individual Hosts without explicit quotas Max total Up + Down = 100GB Resets every week Monday at 1AM Then click "Add new quota" so it adds it, then click "Save". Let me know how you go :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1225872 | 2011-08-26 02:26:00 | I had to fix something like this fof a friend, turned out he had been trying to see about 57mb worth of pictures as an attachement, the email would bounce after it reached the attachment limit and then it would do it all over again the next hour or so | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1225873 | 2011-09-01 22:20:00 | Thanks guys - I've got it up and running now in a test enviroment - the info it is able to give is great. One other question though - is it possible to still use gargoyle to monitor things if it's not the DHCP server? Turns out the environment I want to use it in is a bit more complex that I initially thought, SBS 2008 is the dhcp server in this case. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1225874 | 2011-09-01 22:54:00 | Yup just turn off DHCP. It still has to be in between the LAN / WAN, but yeah it'll work :) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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