traffic monitor... plz explain

[antah]

hello there,

I've read that one of the wingate's features is traffic monitor. I wonder can it illustrate traffic report by local IP addresses? And if it so, can wingate make week and month reports on traffic? Thnaks beforehand.

regards,

antah

[ChrisH]

Antah,

The traffic monitor is a visual, graphical display of the bytes/sec versus time for each network interface on the server. It does not do anything but display a graph in "real time". WinGate does log all activity and the log files can be imported into various other software - spreadsheets, DB's etc. and then sorted or filtered.

[kalvos]

WinGate does log all activity and the log files can be imported into various other software - spreadsheets, DB's etc. and then sorted or filtered.

Related question, then: Where is the option to log the firewall hits? I have been trying to send this info to my ISP (we have a small cable system, and many of the hits are coming internally), but I've had to record this information one at a time. I can't find firewall logs -- are they produced? Where are they stored?

Dennis

[ChrisH]

Dennis,

\Program Files\WinGate\logs\WinGate NAT is where firewall hit entries are stored. Logging should be by default enabled on Extended Networking, Logging ( got to scroll over to see logging tab). The hits are stored with other ENS activity. In Gatekeeper on the Firewall tab, if you right click on display there is an option to copy screen shot to clipboard. This may be easier to view and copy as only firewall hits are shown. Then you have all activity and can send this to ISP.

Hope that helps.

[kalvos]

In Gatekeeper on the Firewall tab, if you right click on display there is an option to copy screen shot to clipboard. This may be easier to view and copy as only firewall hits are shown.

Thanks, Chris. So it either means deleting ENS stuff I don't want from those logs (I haven't looked yet to see how much activity is logged), or copying the firewall hits one at a time; I find no 'select all' or select-shift select to grab the whole 2000+ per day (uck!).

So onward! And thanks again!

Dennis

[ChrisH]

Dennis,

You're right! Sorry about that. I thought it was selecting all - not just highlighted entry. Looks like filtering entries from log may be only way. I imported NAT log into MS Excel and sorted the second column alpabetically and all firewall hits were then listed sequentially and thus easy to cut and paste those entries. Sure a lot easier than doing one at a time.

Hope this works.