On Tue 17 Feb 2015 10:33:21 NZDT +1300, Walter Parker wrote:

> In Realtime, you can use the dashboard app.

The pfsense dashboard? I don't think so. traffic going through a
particular interface is not so interesting.

> For plugins, BandwidthD and Darkstat have some information.

Unfortuntely the info is of no value. I am not interested in any traffic
volume between LAN, DMZ, WIFI, LAN2, etc. I am only interested in the
traffic going through WAN, and with which *internal* host. The above
packages can only tell me which *Internet* sites had how much traffic
through WAN, but that side of the connection is of no interest to me. I
want to know which of my clients have created the traffic for which I
have to pay my ISP, so I can work out which flatmate has to pay for it,
or fix the computer with a problem that wastes my money.

I realise those in the USA and a few other countries don't have this
problem, but it sure exists where I live and I'm sure it's not the only
country. In any case it's good to know what gobbles up resources, even
if they're free.

> I've used netflow on other systems to get this sort of information, but for
> pfSense you would have to setup a second box that ran the netflow
> visualizer to see the traffic information from one of the netflow plugins.

Copying a file onto another computer to look at its content isn't too
much of a problem. Do you know of a good tutorial that lists the
software needed, and basic config for each part?

Thanks,

Volker

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