[WXC/VFX] WAG310G - SNMP / Monitoring Traffic

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Cadriel

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#73378 13-Dec-2010 11:33

Hi All,

I've recently had some odd looking traffic through my connection - and our november bill was twice as much as any other month.

Xnet has recommended I keep track of my usage to determine if there's something odd going on, plus - I'd like to do this myself anyway as it'll help keep me sane.

In any case, we run the WAG310g router - plus I have an Ubuntu server running 24/7 at home. I'd like to setup some monitoring of the router, however - I can't see any options for SNMP in the router's config.

I've tried running snmpwalk against the router, with no luck so far.

Does anyone know if the router has this enabled (with no configuration) or if this is something xnet can turn on at their end via remote config?

If not - is there any other way for me to accomplish this without SNMP?

Any help appreciated.

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#416463 13-Dec-2010 12:04

Cadriel: Hi All,

I've recently had some odd looking traffic through my connection - and our november bill was twice as much as any other month.

Xnet has recommended I keep track of my usage to determine if there's something odd going on, plus - I'd like to do this myself anyway as it'll help keep me sane.

In any case, we run the WAG310g router - plus I have an Ubuntu server running 24/7 at home. I'd like to setup some monitoring of the router, however - I can't see any options for SNMP in the router's config.

I've tried running snmpwalk against the router, with no luck so far.

Does anyone know if the router has this enabled (with no configuration) or if this is something xnet can turn on at their end via remote config?

If not - is there any other way for me to accomplish this without SNMP?

Any help appreciated.

--
Craig.

Not sure if I can help actually, just to say our usage has spiked as well and I'm not too sure where it is coming from. After doing analysis of our usage, software etc I don't believe it is coming from within our network. What I thought it might be is lots of outside traffic hitting our router and being dropped. We have a wrtp54g router and I set it up to monitor the logs via snmp, however, I discovered that nothing useful comes from there. All it seems to log is basic configuration of the router, no "packet xyz on port n was dropped by firewall" unfortunately.

I noticed that the usage was creping up, however, I rebooted the modem which resulted in a new ip address and the usage stopped. That was fine for a few days, however, I'm now seeing more usage again.

I have a linksys am300 modem in half bridge mode with a wrtp54g. I'm thinking of putting my old wrt54g with tomato firmware between the modem and the wrtp54g so that I can more accuartly monitor what is going on. It means compleatly reconfiguring my network, but, this phantom usage is beginning to cost.

wdoa

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#416465 13-Dec-2010 12:11

If you are running Ubuntu, I would install SQUID on Ubuntu and make it your default gateway for all network traffic. Thats what I do. Works a treat, plus the kids all know they are monitored!

Cadriel

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#416469 13-Dec-2010 12:16

I'm average ~100 - 120 a month. November was 260. :(

I also have a static IP, so changing that isn't an easy option.

Also - from november onwards, our usage patterns changed in order to bring our usual bandwidth down - however, it went up instead.

None of it adds up really. Our network is secure too - wireless is turned off on the router - instead we use an Airport Extreme - of which I keep an eye on for external use - plus I lock down as much as I can - so I don't think it's outside influence in that regard.

Our network consists of 2 macbook laptops, and an ubuntu server - so i'm ruling out any fishy software. Plus, I maintain the two notebooks - and know exactly what are running on them. So - there goes any dodgy download utilities.

Ragnor

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#416534 13-Dec-2010 14:09

You could put a 2nd network card in the ubuntu server (one for LAN and one for WAN) and use it as the proxy/gateway and measure all traffic through it.