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    Firewall Rules hit counter - $150

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      @cmb:

      our status.php page (no menu link) has probably all the most useful ones.

      How has this mine of info bypassed my radar until now?  ::)
      Awesome!

      Steve

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      • johnpozJ
        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
        last edited by

        status.php

        Is there no link to this on the gui?  I just looked and couldn't find it - but yeah looks pretty sweet when you go directly to that.

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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          There is no link and that's done on purpose. It's rarely needed except for diagnostics and reporting to support. It's best left "hidden" so to speak.

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            Metu69salemi
            last edited by

            That is great to share co-worker who thinks that networking is too easy to handle..

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              Curium
              last edited by

              Okay, that status.php page is AMAZING!

              However, I think I am noticing that the "evaluations" in "pfctl -vvsr" is counting every time that rule is evaluated by a connection.  That's great, but I am looking for a counter when a rule matches a connection and either allows or denies a connection, "hit".  Evaluations is kind of useless for troubleshooting or identifying dead rules, or even sorting them for efficiency.

              The states, bytes and packets is awesome though.

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                jamesmr89
                last edited by

                I used to have some code that would do a traffic graph based on a rule, I could dig that up and see if I could make it work on pfsense if you'd be interested, basically a bandwidth graph on a per rule basis.

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                  dhatz
                  last edited by

                  @cmb:

                  our status.php page (no menu link) has probably all the most useful ones.

                  Nice.

                  A minor issue I noticed is that the section showing the results of ipfw show now produces an error, apparently since the addition of the pfSense-specific -x context parameter.

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                    ZGamer
                    last edited by

                    Have you taken a look under Diagnostics –> pfTop --> Rules?

                    The PKTS, BYTES, STATE, & INFO colums should give you what your looking for.

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                      mikeisfly
                      last edited by

                      Agreed, coming from the Cisco world having a hit counter is very helpful in trouble shooting and I would be willing to add $50 to have this feature implemented in the next version of PfSense. It would also be nice not to have it all in the same location like when you look at your rules you see how many times there was a match on that rule.

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                      • marcellocM
                        marcelloc
                        last edited by

                        Hi, if someone is still interested on this, follow this topic

                        https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=97925.msg545345#msg545345

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                          zylithi
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                          What about taking this, and spitting it out to an LCD ;)

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