Traffic / capacity measurement of physical interface
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This seems a really obvious thing to do, so no doubt there's an easy answer but for whatever reason I haven't found it by searching, sorry!
How can I tell the level of utilisation of the physical interface of a pfSense firewall? I don't mean the traffic on a logical interface - I've found numerous monitoring solutions for that - what I want to know is if I'm getting close to maxing out the 1Gb capacity of the physical network port and cable carrying multiple logical interfaces.
Thanks.
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@andy_redpoint you prob what to take a look at
systat -ifs
or vnstat is useful for this as well with the live output
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@johnpoz Thanks, that's great and solves my problem.
I was a bit surprised this wasn't available as a metric in the web interface though. Is there a good design reason why (just out of curiosity)?
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Viewing usage by logical interface is generally more used but I can certainly see a use case for this. You could open a feature request:
https://redmine.pfsense.org/Steve
