Using RB750G to count traffic

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Hi All,

I just got my RB750G and I’d like to get this unit to count the Internet traffic I use every month.

I would need to place this device between my router and my ISP.

I guess I should maybe create a bridge and add ports ethernet1-WAN (facing the ISP) and ethernet2 (facing my router) to the bridge and count the traffic going across this bridge.

I’d like to be able to connect say ethernet 3 to ethernet 5 to my internal LAN so I can interrogate the RB750 from the inside.

Is there an easy way to do this and am I using the right device to do this?

Any help would be appreciated.

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What you’ve proposed will work; you just need to create a second bridge for your internal network. What is the current export for your switch?

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Hi aaronhun22,

I managed to get this to work by doing the following:

  1. I applied a VLAN ID of 0 on switch1 and added ether1 and ether2 ports.
  2. I set master port = none on ports ether 3,4 and 5
  3. I removed the DHCP server from the RB750 and all IP Addresses
  4. I allocated a fixed IP address to ether3, same as IPs on my LAN and connected ether3 port to a switched port on my LAN.

Now I can do the following:

  1. I placed the router between the ISP and my router i.e. ether1-ISP to the ISP and ether2-CLIENT to my WAN port of my router.
  2. I can connect from inside my LAN to the internal address of the RB750 I allocated in step 4 above and do all configs and reads stats and all the usual stuff.
  3. I can monitor the ether1 and ether2 interfaces and see the traffic flowing over those bridged ports.

I still need to:

  1. Find a way to count the bytes used on ether1 TX and RX for the period of 1 month and add the two together.
  2. Email this result to myself and my ISP at the end of every month.

So far so good. Anyone have any tips on the I still need to section?

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