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Incorrect bandwidth monitor values

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    MindlessMavis @stephenw10
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      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by May 23, 2022, 8:43 PM

      Even if it was using the OpenVPN that should still appear as WAN traffic.

      Try one of the bandwidth monitoring tools:
      https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/monitoring/graphs/bandwidth-usage.html

      See if you are seeing the same dependency there.

      Steve

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        MindlessMavis @stephenw10
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          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by May 23, 2022, 11:01 PM

          Hmm, I can't replicate that. Works fine here on a 2.6 test box:

          Screenshot from 2022-05-23 23-51-23.png

          Maybe it's something vmx specific?

          Or maybe some hardware off loading you have configured?

          Your WAN and LAN NICs are configured identically?

          What does the interface data actually show?: pfctl -vvsI -i vmx1

          Steve

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            MindlessMavis @stephenw10
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              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by May 23, 2022, 11:14 PM

              Do you expect to see more Out than In there? How does it compare with vmx0?

              It calculates the rates based on how much has passed in the last minute. It looks like the total counts are correct so for some reason it's seems to be miscalculating it... hard to see how though.

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                MindlessMavis @stephenw10
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                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by May 24, 2022, 1:44 PM

                    Hmm, if you unassign the OpenVPN client does it show traffic correctly on WAN?

                    Unless somehow that VPN client is not running on WAN I would expect to see the encrypted traffic there.

                    It would not surprise me to find a 3rd party VPB provider passing all the traffic though. Pretty much all setup guides will have you set the VPN as the default route. Where is that upload traffic going to? How can you be sure it's not going over the VPN?

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                      MindlessMavis @stephenw10
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                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by May 24, 2022, 3:07 PM

                        Well either the values reported by pf are incorrect or RRD is pulling data from the wrong sources.

                        Check: /var/db/rrd/updaterrd.sh

                        That will show you where RRD is pulling data from for WAN out.

                        Steve

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                          MindlessMavis @stephenw10
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                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by May 24, 2022, 5:17 PM

                            Well first off all does the data coming from pfctl look correct to you? I have no way to know if you have reset the interfaces etc.
                            If not then we can try to dig into that. I've never seen that come back incorrectly though.

                            Do you have any rules on WAN that are passing without logging perhaps or somehow passing without creating a state even? Hard to imagine you would but...

                            Steve

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                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by May 24, 2022, 6:53 PM

                                Is the last cleared date you're seeing there when pfSense was last rebooted?

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                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by May 24, 2022, 8:56 PM

                                    Hmm, do you see an outbound state for the openvpn traffic on vmx1?

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                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                        last edited by May 24, 2022, 10:29 PM

                                        Hmm, you could try something more radical like importing the config into a new VM and seeing if it's still replicated.

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