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    Is there a way to see total bandwidth consumption on a per IP address basis?

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    • C
      ck42
      last edited by

      As my home network has grown larger and larger, I've started hitting my Comcast caps! (300GB/month)
      I'd like to see if there's a way to have pfSense show me bandwidth usage by IP address so I can find out if there are any bandwidth hogs (IP addresses are persistently assigned via DHCP)

      Are there any addon pkgs that will do this?

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        Bandwidthd will do that if your internal clients are all on one interface. There are several tools available some of which can work on more than one interface. See:
        https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/How_can_I_monitor_bandwidth_usage

        Steve

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          ck42
          last edited by

          Yea, already read that earlier.
          I'm not looking for real-time stats though.

          I'd like to be able to run, for example, a 1-week or 1-month report and have it show in/out bandwidth consumption (IPv4), broken down by IP address on an interface.

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          • pttP
            ptt Rebel Alliance
            last edited by

            Bandwidthd will do that  ;)

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              ck42
              last edited by

              ptt, Please DO explain.  :o

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              • pttP
                ptt Rebel Alliance
                last edited by

                Explain ???

                Just install the package, configure…... enjoy ;)

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                  ck42
                  last edited by

                  @ptt:

                  Explain ???

                  Just install the package, configure…... enjoy ;)

                  Ahhh…sorry, I missed the 'd' at the end of 'bandwidthd'.  I thought you were saying that there was a bandwidth option somewhere in the RRD reports.

                  THANKS!!

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    Easily missed.  ;)

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