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https://github.com/pyrovski/wrtbwmon

Linux bandwidth monitor with per-device tracking
https://github.com/pyrovski/wrtbwmon

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Linux bandwidth monitor with per-device tracking

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# wrtbwmon

Modified from https://code.google.com/p/wrtbwmon/.



## Testers needed for IPv6 support

Experimental release: https://github.com/pyrovski/wrtbwmon/releases/tag/0.37_ipv6



## Features

 - "User" column has mouseover text containing MAC and IP addresses

 - "First seen" and "Total" columns in usage table

 - Monitoring of locally generated traffic on a per-interface basis

 - `remove` function to delete `iptables` rules



### What does it do?

`wrtbwmon` was designed to track bandwidth consumption on home routers. 

It accomplishes this with `iptables` rules, which means you don't need to run an extra process just to track bandwidth. 

`wrtbwmon` conveniently tracks bandwidth consumption on a per-IP address basis, 

so you can easily determine which user/device is the culprit.



Here is an example usage table:

![image](example.png)



### How do I use it?

- Install: Download and install ipk from the [releases page](https://github.com/pyrovski/wrtbwmon/releases/)

- Setup: `wrtbwmon setup`

- Update table: `wrtbwmon update /tmp/usage.db` (you can place the data table anywhere)

- Create html page: `wrtbwmon publish /tmp/usage.db /tmp/usage.htm`

- Dump table to terminal: `wrtbwmon dump /tmp/usage.db`

- Remove: `wrtbwmon remove`



### Installation options

- Install ipk

  - e.g.,: 

    - `cd /tmp`

    - HTTPS: `curl -LO https://github.com/pyrovski/wrtbwmon/releases/download/0.36/wrtbwmon_0.36_all.ipk`

    - HTTP: you're on your own :( Busybox wget usually doesn't have SSL support.

    - OpenWrt: `opkg install /tmp/wrtbwmon_0.36_all.ipk`

- Install deb from [the releases page](https://github.com/pyrovski/wrtbwmon/releases)

- Or, if you don't want to use an ipk or a deb:

  - `cd /tmp`

  - HTTPS: `curl -L https://github.com/pyrovski/wrtbwmon/archive/0.36.tar.gz | tar xvz`

  - `cd wrtbwmon-0.36`

  - `./install.sh wrtbwmon readDB.awk usage.htm1 usage.htm2 wrtbwmon`

    - Currently, this depends on the `install` program. OpenWrt chose to provide this as the "coreutils-install" package.

- Or, if you have `make`, just `make install` as root after cloning/unpacking.



### Configuring the published table

- `wrtbwmon` checks a few files for MAC -> name maps:

  - 4th argument to `wrtbwmon publish  `

  - `/tmp/dhcp.leases`

  - `/tmp/dnsmasq.conf`

  - `/etc/dnsmasq.conf`

  - `/etc/hosts`

- If all of the above do not yield a match, the script will optionally perform a reverse DNS lookup directed at the DNS server specified in the `DNS` variable. If `DNS` is blank or unset, the script will not perform such lookups.



### Regular updates

- Add the following to root's crontab:



        # adapt PATH to your needs

        PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

	

        * * * * *  update /tmp/usage.db

        0 * * * * <script location> publish /tmp/usage.db /tmp/usage.htm



- On OpenWRT you need to [enable cron](https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/cron#activating_cron) as it is disabled by default:



        /etc/init.d/cron start

        /etc/init.d/cron enable



- Enable web serving of the generated page (optional)

  This varies by environment, but for lighttpd:

         

        ln -s /tmp/usage.htm /var/www/html/



### Remove `iptables` rules

 - `wrtbwmon remove`