General Questions

Honestly speaking whole question is staded in subject of this post.

Since 18 month I have been browsing monowall mailing list to find solution for thet problem... unfortunately nothing up to now.

Is anything changed with new version?

These settings are basic settings to limit incoming Bandwidth for a specific IP address on a network.

Ok here it goes; this is how you do it:

Log in to m0n0wall.
Under Firewall click on Traffic Shaper.

You have to create a Pipe first so click on Pipe and click on the + sign to add a pipe.

Pipe Settings: You only have to fill out 2 fields Bandwidth and Mask.

Bandwidth- Put in the amount you want to limit. Example 400
Mask- Select Source.
Description- Name this Pipe to whatever you like

Click on Save then Apply Changes.

Next is setting up the Rules.

Select the Rules tab
Place a check mark to Enable Traffic Shaper. Then click Save
Click on + sign to add a rule.
On the Traffic Shaper edit page you have to fill out:

Target- Select the pipe you named previously.
Interface- Select WAN to limit WAN traffic coming in.
Protocol- TCP
Source and Source ports- leave the default setting.
Destination-
                        Type: select Single host or alias
                        Address: put in the IP you want to limit.
Direction- Select IN
Description- Put in whatever you like

Click on save, then Apply Changes

And you’re done.

m0n0wall: ver. 1.23b4

If you just want to monitor things, you need an external solution like ntop, or something similar. There is no built in capability to accomplish this.