Re: Logging system usage -

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:31:31 -0400,
Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

DD-WRT in the router logs some usage but not enough to be of
much use and their mailing list/forum is nearly useless for
problem solving.

Openwrt may be a better option. There is a package management system and it
is relatively easy to do custom builds if you want something outside of
the available packages or built differently.

So I am looking for a scheme for tracking usage by mac or device
address. I check usage daily but when I see a jump upward I need
to know what caused it, I always begin to think through what I
have done before panicking the whole family. Any suggestion
appreciated.

If you run the router as an actual router rather than a bridge you should
be able to get a pretty good handle on this using traffic shapping. The
Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control documentation is a bit dated,
but should give you some ideas of what is possible and how to implement
policy. The doucmentation is at lartc.org.
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