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Tunnelbroker.net Specific Topics => Questions & Answers => Topic started by: cholzhauer on March 02, 2011, 06:52:17 AM

Title: Ability to measure traffic?
Post by: cholzhauer on March 02, 2011, 06:52:17 AM
It might be kind of neat to be able to look at how much traffic you're sucking down the tunnel

I'm sure this could be done client side as well, but what if there were a way to look at bandwidth usage on your tunnel on the HE site?

I assume that information already exists in HE on routers or something, so it'd just be a matter of displaying it to the end user. 
Title: Re: Ability to measure traffic?
Post by: snarked on March 02, 2011, 12:04:23 PM
Client side:  For those unix-type systems that can run IP[6]tables, that's easy.  Just set up rules as counters (input, output, and forward).   One will have a count of the number of packets and number of bytes transferred.
Title: Re: Ability to measure traffic?
Post by: SomeJoe7777 on March 02, 2011, 12:28:03 PM
I have my HE tunnel endpoint set up on a Cisco router, and I'm pulling statistics off the router's tunnel interface using MRTG.  That's giving me a good graph of IPv6 traffic.

I don't know of any way this could be done in a user-accessible way on the HE side, though.
Title: Re: Ability to measure traffic?
Post by: broquea on March 02, 2011, 01:19:26 PM
It has come up as a suggestion previously, and been considered. At this time, no plans to do it since users can generally graph their side or look at their interface counters as well.
Title: Re: Ability to measure traffic?
Post by: jimb on March 02, 2011, 04:15:56 PM
Yah.  I have MRTG set up too.