i would like to ask for your help with my task
i’m using RB2011UiAS-2HnD and i wanted to add simple counters to monitor traffic usage (e.g. downloaded GB per month)
i dont need any fancy graphs, just the value
similar to the default dummy rules visible for example in ip/firewall/filter rules or mangle or raw etc. in the web view
i tried to add passthrough rules on various chains in various places (mangle, raw, filter rules …),
but they were increasing MUCH less than the dummy counters, so i guess i must be doing something wrong
i wanted to have a separate counter for daily/monthly upload and download (sum of all ports, i.e. for the whole router)
i guess the daily/monthly would be the same counter and with the help of scheduler i will be reseting them at different times
anybody can guide me how to configure such counters please? thanks in advance
thank you for your answers,
but i still do not know how or even if it is possible to do what i want
i was only referring the dummy rules (fasttrack) because they seem to contain the data i want
so i was wondering if it is possible to create similar rules that would also have the same data (i.e. byte counter)
regarding the snmp, i do not want to install any extra software to collect and store those data
i only want to check the traffic usage from time to time when i login via web interface
is it possible to have such counters visible using the web interface?
Yes, the interface counters are also in the web interface.
But remember that when you do not retrieve them regularly, and the router gets powered off or rebooted, your counts are lost.
That is why it is more prudent to use some automated method to retrieve them at some interval, e.g. an hour or a day.
i know i can see the interface counters
but i dont know how to use that to see daily and monthly traffic usage in the web interface (the amount of GB downloaded and uploaded)
the router is rebooted very rarely and if it does and the counts are lost, i can live with occasional wrong values
You will have to note down the counts regularly to see how much they changed relative to the previous time you checked.
So e.g. check once a day and then subtract what you noted down the previous day to see how much you used that day.
is it possible to automate this process using scripts on the device itself?
and then have the resulting values be visible also on the device itself? (ideally in the web interface)
if yes, could you please point me in the right direction how to do that, please?
It should be possible to script that, but you need skills in general programming and learn the scripting language.
(I mean the keeping of the numbers. presenting them via the web interface will not be possible)
Debugging RouterOS scripts is a difficult task, especially such scheduled scripts that require background storage.
Maybe someone else will do it for you! (not me)
Shocking that such basic functionality is missing for the Graphing tool or web-interface. Really.
It’s the most important value these days. Speeds are of no value. Total usage data (i.e. GB/day, GB/month) is what people pay for in every stage of the internet connectivity.
Yeah, “flat rate”, wait until you go past your assumed or expected ‘fair use’. No such thing as free/unlimited data traffic. I have yet to find any connectivity provider that doesn’t charge beyond a certain threshold.
Of course, but that is not something I as a normal user am going to hit and for which I would need to do bookkeeping.
When I have exceeded that limit I will get a letter.
(this is for fixed connections, for mobile it is different and there are defined limits above which you will get a very low speed)
Still, even with fixed connections there’s no unlimited traffic, and I disagree; In this day and age it’s not difficult to go over those ‘invisible’ limits. All you need is a couple of gamers/8k/VR-users maxing out the available bandwidth on their 10Gbe LAN connections for a couple of days in a row and you’re there.