Bandwidth Monitoring

[jlpk007]

Hi,

I am currently using wingate 6.2.0(build 1121).
Is this version stable with the bandwidth monitoring on?I remember i on it and it keeps hanging the internet connection in my previous version.

Is it possible to view how much traffic is generated from a particular group or user in wingate?I can only find the log for for my proxy and it only show the site visited by users not the traffic consumed.

Thank You.

[logan]

There is a user accounting tab in each users properties that shows you how much bandwidth that user has used and how much time was spent online.
Gatekeeper > Users tab > Expand out the users section > double click on a user > Check the Accounting tab.

As for bandwidth usage by user groups, this is not recorded in WinGate, however a logfile analyzer might be able to work this information out by adding the bandwidth usage of users from the same group together.

Some popular logfile analyzers are;
Proxy Inspector for WinGate: http://www.advsoft.info/en/download/
Saw Mill: http://www.sawmill.net/
Internet Access Monitor: http://www.internetaccessmonitor.com/

I can only find the log for for my proxy and it only show the site visited by users not the traffic consumed.

There should be alot of entries that look like the following in the logfiles. These are recorded after a session finishes to sum up the amount of bandwidth used.

09/06/05 16:25:04 250.18.29.58 0000018770 Traffic 493 250 196 512 2s

According to the helpfile, the traffic represents "Bytes (sent to, received from, sent for, received for) client, and seconds online". I hope this helps.

[rboynton]

09/06/05 16:25:04 250.18.29.58 0000018770 Traffic 493 250 196 512 2s

According to the helpfile, the traffic represents "Bytes (sent to, received from, sent for, received for) client, and seconds online". I hope this helps.

This seems to work fine for user internet connections (records that show "traffic"), but not for things like DNS lookup calls to an outside DNS source or connection attempts from outside sources.

I have a two-way satellite connection and am heavily penalized if I exceed a certain average usage in a 7 day period. I need to absolutely, positively, without a doubt be able to know how much I'm using on a daily basis without having to hunt through user accounting stats. I could look at the external NIC stats, but those are reset if I need to reboot the proxy. Please, please (pretty please) tell me there is some easy way to do this!!!