30 Mar
2011
30 Mar
'11
6:39 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:31:31 -0400, Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin@wildblue.net 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.