bandwidth usage

[bidouilleur]

hello
installed latest this afternoon and played some ...
installation

dsl router/modem 192.168.1.1
wrt54gl 192.168.1.2
all computers with fixed ip in 192.168.1x range to 192.168.1.2 (wire or wifi)
status od the wrt :

Device Name:OpenWrt
Gargoyle Version:1.3.4
Device Configuration:Gateway
Memory Usage:12.8MB / 14MB (92%)
CPU Load Averages:0.30 / 0.25 / 0.46 (1/5/15 minutes)
Uptime:0 days, 4 hours, 12 minutes
Current Date & Time:22/08/10 19:13 CEST
LAN IP Address:192.168.1.2
LAN Netmask:255.255.255.0
LAN MAC Address: xxx
Wireless Mode:Access Point (AP)
Wireless MAC Address: xxx
Access Point SSID: xxx
QoS Upload:Enabled
QoS Download:Enabled

I have a 2 mb symmetric wimax connection (in theory at least, 2 down, rather 0.5 up with peaks to 2 m)

First b/w distribution doesn't show on latest Safari on latest osX (no clue why, in FF it does)

Then the main question is BW usage, it takes what ??

I attach an image where I dl true ftp (average 1200 Kbyte/sec) a file and the bw usage is flat (4 Kbyte/sec) on gargoyle ... pretty strange

have I done something wrong ? IS it only graphing specific things ???

tried to find some on forum but search terms are very limited

thanks for the help, response

[Eric]

You've selected to view bandwidth for only 3 individual hosts: Imac, mb and toshiba.

Maybe the computer you're using to download the file isn't one of these, and therefore the bandwidth isn't showing up? If you try this again, and make sure "total" is selected at the top, what do you see?

[bidouilleur]

the computer downloading was the Imac

changed the setting and no change
something else I do wrong ?

[Eric]

Hmm... can you confirm you're downloading the file from a computer that's not on your local network? Gargoyle is only monitoring the bandwidth used on the WAN interface, which means local network traffic is not monitored.

[bidouilleur]

it is wan but I think I got the answer, now see if we can change it so it works
My linksys is not the modem linked to wan, it is going via another modem that is linked to wan

I use port 1 to link to the modem (so all traffic on linksys is lan)
I tried to use the wan port on linksys but that is not 'bridged' like I used to have with dd-wrt ..
I set as below now and only use ports 1 to 4
Is there a way I can use the wan port to link to modem ? Guess if that could be done the graphs will work since I guess it is monitoring only that wan port.

[bidouilleur]

radically changed setup and still no graphs near reality

still hopping round 6-8 Kbytes when I do a dl test and I get 2 Mb/s

am lost sorry

[BikeMike]

You're using the Gargoyle router just as a switch. You need to disable routing in your modem (ie. bridge it) then use Gargoyle to do the routing.

[bidouilleur]

a no go

modem is locked down by ISP, have no access to anything in there,
Guess we're final.

[vplessky]

Hmm... can you confirm you're downloading the file from a computer that's not on your local network? Gargoyle is only monitoring the bandwidth used on the WAN interface, which means local network traffic is not monitored.

Eric, can you please elaborate on this?

I have several computers connected to router (wired ports), and several others connected via wireless.
My understanding that I should be able to see traffic statistics at least for:
a) LAN (common bridge, or VLAN1)
b) Wireless (wlan0)
c) WAN
In ideal situation, it would be nice to have possibility to monitor traffic for individual client - one of ethernet wired port, or wireless connection.

BTW: I tried Nework Traffic graphs in OpenWrt 10.03.1 (with LuCI web UI), and it seems statistics for LAN (ethernet wired clients) is not displayed correctly.
See discussion on forum:
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=119693
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=17037

[Eric]

Only bandwidth between hosts on your local network and hosts outside your network (bandwidth that passes through the WAN interface) is logged. Bandwidth between two hosts that are both on your LAN is not logged.

Bandwidth monitoring in Gargoyle is implemented in a completely different manner from how it is done in LuCI, so the bug you reference does not apply to Gargoyle.