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    BandwidthD is coming back soon!

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Traffic Monitoring
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    • jimpJ
      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
      last edited by

      It was up for 2.4 first. It should be there for everyone now (2.3.4 and later)

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      • arrmoA
        arrmo
        last edited by

        I see it there - thanks so much! Now I need to remember how to initialize the database (I like to use PostgreSQL).

        Thanks again!

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        • arrmoA
          arrmo
          last edited by

          OK, one slight hitch … ;)

          I have been struggling to get Bandwidthd working with my postgresql server, thought it was me setting something up wrong. Then I checked the log on pfSense, found this,
          May 27 09:49:19 pfSense bandwidthd: Postgresql logging selected but postgresql support is not compiled into binary.  Please check the documentation in README, distributed with this software.

          OK, at least it may not be me ... LOL.

          Is there a way to build in this support?

          Thanks!

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            AR15USR
            last edited by

            Any way to change the color palette? Kind of hard to see things on the dark theme…

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            2.6.0-RELEASE

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              JasonAU
              last edited by

              @jimp:

              …and now it's up for 2.3.4.

              I've had a play on my LAN and really like the looks of the reports however it appears to not support PPPoE WAN are there any plans to support PPPoE

              Brisbane Queensland Australia

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              • jimpJ
                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                last edited by

                @JasonAU:

                @jimp:

                …and now it's up for 2.3.4.

                I've had a play on my LAN and really like the looks of the reports however it appears to not support PPPoE WAN are there any plans to support PPPoE

                That isn't anything we can control, and you wouldn't generally want to run it on a WAN anyhow. It used to exclude WAN interfaces, I added them back because it's easier for me to test it that way.

                You'd run it on a LAN where you want to see/track your LAN user traffic.

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                • arrmoA
                  arrmo
                  last edited by

                  Hi,

                  Any thoughts about PostgreSQL support? Seems to be missing in this build …  :(

                  Thanks!

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                  • jimpJ
                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                    last edited by

                    @arrmo:

                    Any thoughts about PostgreSQL support? Seems to be missing in this build …  :(

                    Does it work if you manually run this:

                    pkg install postgresql93-client
                    

                    ?

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                    • arrmoA
                      arrmo
                      last edited by

                      I think the issue is bandwidthd, not postgresql related … no? Here is what I saw in the log when I tried it,
                      May 27 09:49:19 pfSense bandwidthd: Postgresql logging selected but postgresql support is not compiled into binary.  Please check the documentation in README, distributed with this software.

                      Thanks!

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                      • jimpJ
                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                        last edited by

                        The port doesn't have any way to set a Postgres dependency, though. It looks like back on 2.2.x it compiled postgresql-client before it compiled bandwidthd and bandwidthd picked it up automatically, which is ugly. I'll have to see if I can find a better way to make that work.

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                          n3by
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                          Hi,

                          I discovered that bandwidth statistical pages can be accessed without been authenticated…

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                          • jimpJ
                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                            last edited by

                            @ecfx:

                            Hi,

                            I discovered that bandwidth statistical pages can be accessed without been authenticated…

                            That has always been the case with bandwidthd. Though I have some ideas on how to fix that, I haven't implemented anything yet.

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                              crookedview
                              last edited by

                              Just chiming in with a request to find a way to support logging to a remote PostgreSQL database.  I tried installing the client from the suggestion above and also receive the message about PostgreSQL support not being compiled into the binary (same as arrmo).

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                                Camis
                                last edited by

                                No VLAN monitoring support :(

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                                • cfapressC
                                  cfapress
                                  last edited by

                                  :) :) :)

                                  THANK YOU SO MUCH for bringing back BandwidthD.

                                  This tool is my 'go to' reference when I notice unusual traffic going across the network. It gives me an immediate snapshot to identify the device causing the traffic. Which I can quick cross reference to a user on my network.

                                  I've struggled with ntopng since BandwidthD was removed. While ntopng is pretty it's not at all intuitive and pales in the ease of use I find with BandwidthD.

                                  So, again, a HUGE - THANK YOU - for bringing this package back !!!

                                  Jason

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                                    rickjm540
                                    last edited by

                                    I would also LOVE to see the postgres logging available again!

                                    Thanks so much for bringing this back :)

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                                      grandrivers
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                                      sure would be nice to see dark mode color pallet fixed

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                                        jasonsfirewall
                                        last edited by

                                        I love Bandwidthd! I was soooo disappointed when it was removed. Thank you to all that worked on the project to get it reinstated! Not everyone has unlimited bandwidth so I depend on this tool to tell me who is over doing it. I tried a lot of other tools even using free version of splunk which will turn you into a forensic investigator spending hours and hours…. Bandwidthd is point and click!  ;D

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                                          jasonsfirewall
                                          last edited by

                                          @jimp:

                                          @ecfx:

                                          Hi,

                                          I discovered that bandwidth statistical pages can be accessed without been authenticated…

                                          That has always been the case with bandwidthd. Though I have some ideas on how to fix that, I haven't implemented anything yet.

                                          I like the fact that it doesn't require auth for home use so I can easily share with kids and wife, I can see for commercial use that wouldn't be so good. If you do enable auth it would be good to be able to toggle on or off.

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                                            jasonsfirewall
                                            last edited by

                                            Does Bandwidthd work on 2.4.1? thanks

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