1.3 Development

     Hi,
I would like to request a feature.  I'm a home user on a bandwidth limited internet connection and I'm probably not alone.  I usually run up against my monthly limit and don't find out until it's too late.  I would love a bandwidth usage counter that could be configured to reset on a monthly basis corresponding to my internet billing cycle. 

I thank the authors of monowall, I have gotten much use out of it.  I'm new to this forum and posting things to forums in general so I hope my request reaches the correct people and is someday answered.

Kind regards,
     Nick Novak.
 

enable snmp and use any number of utilities to track and tally your bandwidth usage remotely. MRTG and/or RRD work well, I am sure windows has plenty of commercial GUI's capable of SNMP monitoring routers, its pretty much the standard way of business but can be kinda complicated for home-use.

this kinda tracking is kinda beyond the idea of m0n0, bandwidth tracking & logging requires local disk space and regular writes... plus while only a month's stats may be sufficent for you, I got daily/weekly/monthly/yearly stats polled every 5mins going back nearly a decade, its not the job of my router to do this level of logging.

Another good option is port-mirroring, ethernet hub, or ethernet-tap going to an interface w/ntop listing on it.. its a passive listing device that can give you all kinds of real-time network information without interfering w/throughput trying to process it all. Also makes a good place to stick some IDS monitors to detect hack attempts. However this is even more complicated of a setup for home use, (hint: http://ossim.net )