Monitor single IP traffic?

[jsmiddleton4]

Looking now. Have found another post asking the same question. Looking for way to monitor traffic per IP address of clients.

I've done the single IP address and have created a file to the storage I selected.

But the file despite being able to unzip the gz file the resulting file is jibberish.

Will keep looking.....

 

[RMerlin]

Looking now. Have found another post asking the same question. Looking for way to monitor traffic per IP address of clients.

I've done the single IP address and have created a file to the storage I selected.

But the file despite being able to unzip the gz file the resulting file is jibberish.

Will keep looking.....

That file is not meant to be user-readable. It's a binary format that gets parsed by the firmware for its own Traffic Monitor pages.

 

[jsmiddleton4]

So If I tell it to monitor one IP address that is what the graph shows? That IP address bandwidth utilization?

 

[RMerlin]

So If I tell it to monitor one IP address that is what the graph shows? That IP address bandwidth utilization?

The graph is for the regular traffic monitoring. There is no graphic associated to IPTraffic.

 

[KevTech]

Tomato can monitor per IP traffic.

Can also monitor what sites each IP goes to.

 

[jsmiddleton4]

"There is no graphic associated to IPTraffic."

Ok but what good is the page to monitor individual IP addresses and the options in terms of where to save the report then?

I'm obviously missing some dot.......

 

[Zirescu]

In the drop down list of Traffic Monitor you need to select the either Real-time, Daily or Monthly option under the sub-section Per Device. You will then see a tabular view of the traffic information collected.

 

[jsmiddleton4]

Thanks. Gives a log and that is at least something. Was looking at the graph/chart thing.

Isn't a big deal just trying to figure out how it works.

Two places to put in IP's to monitor?

Advanced filtering on the Traffic Monitor "Device" tab and in "Tools" "Other.." Tab.

 

[RMerlin]

Thanks. Gives a log and that is at least something. Was looking at the graph/chart thing.

Isn't a big deal just trying to figure out how it works.

Two places to put in IP's to monitor?

Advanced filtering on the Traffic Monitor "Device" tab and in "Tools" "Other.." Tab.

The filtering will only filter what gets displayed. What you configure on the Tools page affects what gets logged and saved to disk.

The IPTraffic is the same implementation as Tomato BTW, except I didn't bother re-implementing the graphs. Too much trouble for what it's worth IMHO (I would have to rewrite these from scratch).

 

[jsmiddleton4]

I'd say I agree in regards to the graphs. But maybe some tweaking on the log entries, how to for specific IP addresses?

"The filtering will only filter what gets displayed. What you configure on the Tools page affects what gets logged and saved to disk."

Wouldn't it be simpler to log everything and then just filter the report?

If someone is in need of extensive monitoring and needing all kinds of reports/utilization monitoring wouldn't they be using a tool designed for such things and not a basic monitoring capability?

 

[RMerlin]

I'd say I agree in regards to the graphs. But maybe some tweaking on the log entries, how to for specific IP addresses?

"The filtering will only filter what gets displayed. What you configure on the Tools page affects what gets logged and saved to disk."

Wouldn't it be simpler to log everything and then just filter the report?

More efficient not to log everything if you are on a very busy network, so I can see people wanting to only log certain specific IPs.

Beside, the functionality was already implemented in cstats, all I did was to expose the setting through the webui.

 

[jsmiddleton4]

I have IP addresses configured in "Tools" menu/other settings.

When I look at the Per Device in Traffic Monitor when I select "Real Time" all clients are shown.

When I go to "Daily" it shows just the clients I have in Tools/Other Settings.

When I do to "Monthly" same thing, shows the clients I have listed in Tools/Other settings.

Is that how it is supposed to work?

 

[RMerlin]

I have IP addresses configured in "Tools" menu/other settings.

When I look at the Per Device in Traffic Monitor when I select "Real Time" all clients are shown.

When I go to "Daily" it shows just the clients I have in Tools/Other Settings.

When I do to "Monthly" same thing, shows the clients I have listed in Tools/Other settings.

Is that how it is supposed to work?

Yes. As I said, what you enter on the Tools page determines what gets saved to the database.

 

[jsmiddleton4]

I understand which is why my question.

If the only thing that is supposed to be saved to the database is what I configure in "Tools" why am I seeing all clients IP's when looking at Real Time DEV IP table?

I only have three IP's listed in Tools.

The only information the database should have to display regardless of which option I select, Real Time-Daily-Monthly, in Traffic Monitor is those three yes?

Just trying to connect the dots here....

Does "Real Time" bypass the database and shows which IP's are currently being managed by the router?

 

[RMerlin]

I understand which is why my question.

If the only thing that is supposed to be saved to the database is what I configure in "Tools" why am I seeing all clients IP's when looking at Real Time DEV IP table?

I only have three IP's listed in Tools.

The only information the database should have to display regardless of which option I select, Real Time-Daily-Monthly, in Traffic Monitor is those three yes?

Just trying to connect the dots here....

Does "Real Time" bypass the database and shows which IP's are currently being managed by the router?

Sorry, I thought you meant you had all IPs configured in Tools but were filtering on the display page.

To be honest I don't remember if the realtime page shows live data, or relies on the database in any way - it's been a few months since I looked at that code. It's possible that the realtime page shows all IPs because a lot of what you see there isn't coming from the database, but directly from the kernel live data.

 

[jsmiddleton4]

"what you see there isn't coming from the database"

That would make sense with what I'm seeing. Real time doesn't need to be written to the database after all its "real time".

I guess only monitoring selected IP's keeps the database file only as big as need be. That would be a "pro" to using Tools to filter particular IP's.