Traffic Graphs

[networkingpeasant]

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.

[stephenw10]

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]

@networkingpeasant you could also just increase the "smoothing"

[networkingpeasant]

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