Traffic Graphs

networkingpeasant · Dec 17, 2021, 2:21 PM

I'm fairly new to using pfSense, and I am a bit concerned about the network traffic graphs. On my old router they never had so many random spikes that pfsense shows, I just want to know these spikes are common.
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stephenw10 · Dec 17, 2021, 3:13 PM

Yeah, nothing unusual there. It was probably just averaged more on your previous router.

You have to look at the scale on those graphs since it's auto-scaling. The VPN interface is hardly moving any traffic so the axis is scaled to 1.5k. A 1.5k 'spike' could be a single DNS query or similar.

Steve

johnpoz · Dec 17, 2021, 2:47 PM

@networkingpeasant you could also just increase the "smoothing"

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networkingpeasant · Dec 17, 2021, 2:47 PM

@stephenw10 Thanks Steve, I can put my mind to rest now!