Vnstat "like" package to monitor bandwidth usage PER LAN IP {NOW $280USD}
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I'll put in $30USD. Pfsense needs a better bandwidth tracking (netop is broken, bandwidthd sucks and has not been worked on in years). I can't code, but I can contribute a bit.
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so we have $130 in total, any1 ready to code?
mayb more would be willing to contribute if some1 was ready to do it and set a target price
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I might chip in if there was a target Price
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Why bandwidthd sucks? Doesn't it do bandwidth consumption per IP?
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Not that it's exactly relevant, and it's a lot heavier, but ntop should be working now too. It's the 800 pound gorilla of network monitoring, but it can also have the temper of one.
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I will post 50.00 to start it off . I have read other posts with members looking for this as well.
Please jump on board So someone with the skills to write this package has the motivation to try it.I would like a accurate monitoring per IP package . Bandwidthd does not cut the mustard at all .
Vnstat works great for the total per month on the wan port. I would like the same output listed per lan IP by month updated at 24 hour intervals.Alright I pledge 100.00 instead of 50.00 !
Could really use this.
Allan -
pretty new to these parts and to pfsense but if $50 would help the cause I'm in for $50.
I would really like to be able to monitor per IP.
I would add - this feature has the possibility to increase my income a bunch and I will be willing to donate a portion of that directly to an individual/group or this board. I would need minute or second breakdown (maybe 5-min is fine but that is max) per IP. The more data the better.
So I'll post/pledge $50 and offer up a share in the $$ this will generate for me which I want to make clear could be substancial - i will be happy to face the fourm/board on this as well as pay the originator her/his cut.
heh… glad I hopped into this board tonight...
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I'm using squid with a non-transparent proxy in place, in combination with vnstat, works great. Very little details are left out. I read somewhere that you can use a transparent proxy similar to a non by having a file (pac or something) with the configuration pre-defined. I think internet explorer's "automatically detect settings" looks for this file.
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Now at $230.00
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I've been working commercially with netflow for some years now and have implemented systems which cope with billions of flows per day, calculating hundreds of customers data plans. While those systems run from cisco routers, this can be done under FreeBSD fairly easily and can monitor all the interfaces individually and then filter/aggregate them based on subnets, IP's, ports etc. The only failing currently with flow tools is no IPv6 support. I have built netflow v9 gernerator/capture software (which supports IPv6) in php to gain an understanding of it. Based on all of this knowledge, I am sure I can contribute something to the pfSense project, if so desired.
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I've been running PRTG on a windows XP box and have had poor results with softflowd V9 data. PRTG displays a small percentage of the actual data used.
I have switched back to the PFsense package Pfflowd. Witch seems to send data V9 that PRTG can interpret correctly. But PRTG has issues with the flow time outs when using Pfflowd.
I also have an issue with filtering local traffic where a PC running pf sense has 2 lans. One being a static route too another network with it's own WAN gateway.
If a package that exported flow data could be configured too only export flows between X and Y interfaces leaving Z interface out of the picture I would love to try it!It seems that PRTG can not filter an interface with Letters in it's name. Mine for example is (EM1) and (EM2) and (BGE0).
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If you have a Linux or Unix system available you could run flow-tools (home page http://code.google.com/p/flow-tools) to analyse your flow records. There is a variety of filter and report options. There is a reasonable writeup in Network Flow Analysis by Michael W Lucas, ISBN 978-1-59327-203-6
I run pfflowd on pfSense, direct the flow records to a collector program (flow-capture) on a Linux system and use flow-report and flow-nfilter on the Linux system to generate reports.
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I would kick in $20.
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Ill pitch in another $20.00
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Any updates on this matter? I find it hard to believe something as simple as bandwidth usage statistics per IP would be so hard to develop..
I'll trow in another 10$
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that makes it $280 but still no1 to do it, probably some1 should mention what their target amount is and then can try and meet that
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that makes it $280 but still no1 to do it, probably some1 should mention what their target amount is and then can try and meet that
Yes please someone give us an idea of what it would take to get this rolling. I think a package like this should be a part of PFsense.
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Yesterday, I had a chat with the vnStat author. I asked him if he had any plans to implement this feature directly into vnStat, here are some excerpts from our conversation:
<vergo>that would require a complete rewrite since the linux kernel doesn't provide that information directly. I wouldn't integrate that sort of feature into vnStat
<vergo>the thing is, the kernel provides the information about traffic per interface directly so vnStat can just query it and sleep between the queries
<vergo>filtering traffic per ip would require inspecting every packet and that's a totally different thing
<vergo>it might be possible to cheat a little bit and use iptables for getting the data but the end result wouldn't work in anything else than linux and even that would have some restrictions</vergo></vergo></vergo></vergo>I asked if he had any idea of something we are looking for already exists for FreeBSD:
<vergo>I've had some plans for writing at least some kind of proof of concept program for doing per ip stats with a console based program but haven't so far found time to start it
<vergo>darkstats is the closest there currently is and it isn't exactly what you are searching since it's also filtering target ips, doesn't provide simple stats from console and can't survive a restart</vergo></vergo>So I guess we are pretty much out of luck with this bounty, as far as my understanding goes, an entirely new package is needed to accomplish the listing of usage per IP.. :(
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Thanks for the Info.!
I'll update the topic subject and revise this bounty for those keeping track.A vnstat "like" package to monitor bandwidth usage PER LAN IP
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I will post a further $20.00 for the development of this feature/package.
