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    Best package for bandwidth/usage reporting and monitoring?

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      Kim
      last edited by

      I'm just wondering what the best Package would be to do the following:

      Daily/Weekly/Monthly reporting on downloads (in kb/mb) per IP address on the LAN.
      Real-time bandwidth monitoring (in kb/mb) per IP address on the LAN.

      Cheers,
      Kim

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        sullrich
        last edited by

        darkstat or bandwidthd.

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          Kim
          last edited by

          Do they both do pretty much the same thing? What are the advantages of each?

          (I did install both on my pfSense box, as well as Squid - but something caused problems (WAN no longer working) - so I formatted the box and started over. Don't want to install both again - so will work out which one to go with first, and install only it).

          Cheers,
          Kim

          EDIT: Do both of these packages work fully on 1.2 Beta-1? Bandwidthd looks like the nicest to use - how "stable" is it? I have read a few older posts on the forum about people having problems with it - are these resolved in the current Package? Or is it no longer being maintained?

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            jahonix
            last edited by

            If you use Squid as your http Proxy, you can install LightSquid as reporting tool for that. Pretty nice job, dvserg has done here!
            However, it can only report about squid's usage, not SMTP/POP or whatelse you use/allow.

            Chris

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              Kim
              last edited by

              Is Squid quite stable? I read somewhere else on the forum that it hasn't been updated for quite some time?

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              • jahonixJ
                jahonix
                last edited by

                Can't complain about Squid.
                None of my boxes gets pushed real hard and up until now I didn't have any issues. I better shut up now, otherwise Squid might stop working tomorrow morning…  ;D

                Chris

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