Nat not logging traffic.

[phillc]

Hi, I am trying to track down my increasing broadband useage. I have changed from a novell gateway to wingate to see if I can get more information on the traffic going up and down our pipe.
Wingate is allowing access to everything we want, but in looking at the logs, there are quite a few NAT calls, none of which are showing traffic quantities.
I came across a freeware program for wingate that anaylses the logs very well, but it is only showing the proxy calls,because the nat logs don't have any bytes recorded in them (the NAT log shows connection times,IP address,user,call no., traffic,0,0,0,0,0s)
My understanding is that nat can actually bypass most of wingates handling, but I would have thought that wingate would still have been monitoring the traffic through it.

My question is:- is there a setting which will allow wingate to log the traffic used during a NAT call, as well as the fact that an NAT call has occurred?


We have two NICs set up on the wingate server, one public, one private. The novell server simply calls the wingate server as though it were the router, i.e. we have set the ip address of the wingate server to the old router address, and changed the router IP. The rest of the network proxy's to the wingate server, to allow me to ID the user.

thanks, Phill C

[MattP]

Hi Phill,

We are working on ways to improve our logging at the moment, at the moment though I don't think you'll have much luck logging the NAT statistics. If you don't need to use NAT then you can force the clients to connect via proxy and then all traffic should be logged.

Regards,

Matt