Hello,

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

Dummy rules are for FastTrack. But when it's active, packets bypass firewall, including your passthrough rules.

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?

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

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?

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.

Well that will probably vary by region. Here we have flat-rate internet, no charge for traffic.

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.