Niall O Broin wrote:
> On 21 Jul 2009, at 13:43, Michael Watterson wrote:
>>> On my home Broadband I switched from a Dlink Router to a OpenWRT
>> based Router connected to the cable modem
>>>> On the Luci Interface I setup Monitoring and fiddled with the WAN
>> Accept / reject / Drop settings
>>>> Before on Dlink I was getting small traffic overnight apart from email
>>>> With the OpenWRT and adjusting the Drop/Reject etc the amount of
>> packet arriving hasn't changed (about 300 per second), but traffic
>> from them is now near zero (flat line overnight).
>> Your playing with the words "traffic" and "packet" is puzzling,
> really, as internet traffic arrives in packets.
Yes this is true.
> Perhaps you're defining "traffic" as data you're interested in, and
> "packets" as all incoming data, and as you now use a router which
> drops more "packets" you're getting less "traffic". However, from the
> POV of the OP this is all irrelevant as he's being billed by his 3G
> provider for every arriving "packet", not just for "traffic". Hence
> Kenn's information about O2's two different APRNs is quite useful,
Yes, it is useful. Especially on Windows or other OS that gets attacked
and you have no Firewall. This is why I recommend people use a separate
HW Firewall. Unless they are running Linux *AND* know how to configure a
SW firewall.
> as unwanted "packets" are dropped by O2 using the 'internet' APRN, so
> all of the incoming "packets" presumably contain "traffic". Sadly the
> OP isn't using O2, but perhaps his provider has a similar option.
There are two options on 3 here
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055442502
A suitably configured native firewall or separate CentOS or OpenWRT
could be a solution too.
>>> Packets and Traffic are not the same thing.
>> To enlighten me (and possibly others) could you maybe clarify the
> distinction as you see it?
>>>> Niall
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_(information_technology)
Packets can have varying amount of payload.
*Network traffic* is data in a network. In computer networks, the data
is encapsulated in packets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_traffic_measurement
However I'm not entirely sure what OpenWRT statistics relate to.
but I have a link to the last 24 hrs.
http://www.radioway.info/images/traffic.png
You can see that while the "packets" received remain at over 30%
overnight there is no associated traffic.
Perhaps what OpenWRT is "measuring" as Packets are infact connection
attempts?
No-one gets charged for "packets" but you get charged for "traffic".
My ISPs traffic Monitor totals and graphs over last 24hrs / last 7 days/
last 30 days closely agrees with my OpenWRT monitor.
--
Mike
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