General Questions

Hi there!

A little help for a newbie, please.

I've set up a m0n0wall machine (P4/1.6GHz, 256 RAM; LAN: fxp0 / Intel 82559 Pro; WAN: xl0 / 3Com 3c905C-Tx; LAN Ip: 10.10.1.254). Everything is just fine, just that I've noticed that the Bytes counter in Diagnostics: Firewall states does not... counts very well

I've set up a little test, as you can see on the screenshot. On a test machine (10.10.1.99) I've started a download of a Ubuntu distribution. After downloading ~100MBytes of it, the statistics shows ~73 000 packets and only ~3 000 000 Bytes.

[img=http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5761/screenshot2ks.th.png]

Can please anyone tell me why this huge difference?

Thanks.

For an incoming 100MB file transfer, the outgoing ACKs required might be about 3MB. This agrees with your screenshot's highlighted line which says you sent 2915960 bytes.

Somewhere in the rest of your state table, which isn't visible to us, there should be something showing the source of the transfer and its details. Is there?

No, it isn't. I did the download again, here's another screenshot, with the full table. The only thing that indicates the download connection is on the first line. Nothing else.

[img=http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/5210/screenshot3yp.th.png]

I made also a FTP download, that did also not show up in the firewall connection states.

LE: The WAN interface is configured as PPPoE. Could this be a reason why the incoming traffic is not shown?