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Accounting on Dynamic Interface

Hi!

Does anyone of you know, if in v5 the accounting works on an PPPoE-DSL-Interface?

We had the problem with v4 that the accounting reports resets, as soon as the IP changes. And since our provider disconnects every 24 hours, the reports were useless.

We want to check the DSL-traffic, since we pay per GB.

Thanks,
Thorsten

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0 ref over 21 years ago

i read in documentation that it is better to use internal interface for reporting when using dynamic uplinks.
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0 THoehne over 21 years ago in reply to ref

Yes, but since we use the caching HTTP proxy, those traffic are different! We only want the real DSL traffic to be measured!
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0 eFrisky over 21 years ago in reply to THoehne

Does your ADSL modem have SNMP? If it does, that should provide you with the data that you need. Just download one of the freeware SNMP monitoring utilities.
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0 THoehne over 21 years ago in reply to eFrisky

I don't think it's SNMPable. It's provides "as is" preconfigured from our Provider...

The main question was, if ASL v5 is doing this right now? Just monitor all traffic on a specified device... v4 had problems with that... The changing IP doesn't have to bother ASL!
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0 wk_03 over 21 years ago in reply to THoehne

As far as I know only the traffic between networks is counted. So the traffic to the cache will not be counted.
If you have a DMZ and add Internal_Network and DMZ_Network to be counted, then only the the sum of both networks to the external_network will be seen, because the traffic between two enabled network is not counted

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0 wk_03 over 21 years ago in reply to THoehne

As far as I know only the traffic between networks is counted. So the traffic to the cache will not be counted.
If you have a DMZ and add Internal_Network and DMZ_Network to be counted, then only the the sum of both networks to the external_network will be seen, because the traffic between two enabled network is not counted

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0 THoehne over 21 years ago in reply to wk_03

That kinda confuses me...

So what do I have to set under Network->Accounting? Which Interfaces?

And what in Reporting->Accounting?

Thx,
Thorsten
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0 wk_03 over 21 years ago in reply to THoehne

Hi Thorsten,

I didn't want to confuse you.
If you have no DMZ that's easy.

Network->Accounting: Interfaces: Internal
Reporting->Accounting: Queried Networks: Internal_Network

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0 THoehne over 21 years ago in reply to wk_03

But thats not the traffic going over our DSL-Line. The HTTP proxy caches a lot of stuff, so the internal traffic is not the same as the external, isn't it?

We have 3 interfaces:
- LAN
- DSL
- DMZ (with 3 adresses on one interface)
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