iBurst screwing me over...

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TheYak

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No big surprise... anyhoo: I have, on purpose, not downloaded anything too big for the past week and have kept my surfing rather mild and according to iBurst's bandwidth monitor, I've used 2 Gigs allready. A friend of mine frequents the same site I do (http://www.deviantart.com) and he's been uploading images and talking on Skype etc etc and he's only standing on 280 megs...

Something's not right somewhere... there's no WAY in hell that I could have downloaded and uploaded two gigs allready - NO WAY! We have an ADSL connection at work with 17 people on it, of which two are heavy downloaders. Our 3Gigs lasts at least half of the month.

I'm trying to get a smoothwall box up and running to measure the bandwidth myself, but I'm not having any luck.. for some reason my machines can't see it :(

This sucks... :(
 
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I also have an axe to grind with WBS over my usage report - seems it has disappeared ~200MB of my bandwidth compared to what SmoothWall Express 2.0 tells me :(.

TheYak, I am not an SWE2 expert, but I can try helping you out, do you have SWE2 installed already?
 
Swoosh: Indeed there is... I phoned them and Portia said that she would get back to me... I'm not holding my breath though.

Vowthorn: The problem is that I have three PCs on the network that browse - one person that chats on Yahoo and occassionaly goes onto vodacom4me.co.za and another that checks news24 every morning - I suppose I could install bandwidth measuring software on all of their machines, but I'd prefer to have it in one place.

IC: I have Smoothwall 2.0 installed with a Green + Red interface set up. but if I go to http://smoothwal:81 - nothing happens... I have tried restarting my windows machine to let it get an IP address from the SW box, but no luck...

Any bright ideas?
 
So far I've found the Iburst bandwidth monitor to be very accurate.

Two possible reasons for unexpected usage:

1) If you are doing p2p, bandwidth usage can get out of control (especially uploads) if you are not monitoring it closely.
2) If you are infected with spyware, your bandwidth may disappear very, very rapidly.

I'm not saying either of these are the case, but you can only dispute WBS's meter if you are using your own meter. Phrases like "I only downloaded a few megs" won't really cut it.
 
TheYak said:
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IC: I have Smoothwall 2.0 installed with a Green + Red interface set up.
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Ok, that's the same as my setup: 2 * NICs, one GREEN the other is RED, iBurst UTD attached via ethernet to RED, on GREEN - lan/intranet attached to my 8 port switch. It looks like SWE2 distinguishes between NICs according to their PCI position, so your GREEN NIC will be the one that is in a PCI slot before the RED NIC.
TheYak said:
but if I go to http://smoothwal:81 - nothing happens...
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Ok, I found that using "smoothwall" doesn't work so well from my Windoze PCs, I use https://192.168.0.1:441, but I also had to setup each of my lan/intranet PCs to use default gateway of 192.168.0.1 (i.e. whatever IP you assigned to the GREEN NIC on installing/setup of SWE2). You should get a message about the digital certificate, which you just OK. After that you get to the SWE2 web interface where you go to the networking link along the top of the page. Then click on ppp settings, then select PPPoE from the drop-down list under Interface, you can/should also enable Persistent connection, and then under Authentication keyin your iBurst username and password.
TheYak said:
I have tried restarting my windows machine to let it get an IP address from the SW box, but no luck...

Any bright ideas?
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Hope that helps, let me know if the wheels fall off somewhere along the way, or if it works.
 
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By some devine means (and with some help from you, IC) the Smoothwall machine is now working...

Only one problem though... some sites don't want to load and I think it might be because of the MTU setting on Smoothwall. Is there anywhere where I can change that?

Thanks for the help so far IC, I appreciate it :D

Later that night...

I changed the MTU on my machine using DRTCP and it works now...

My next question is: How do I install mods onto Smoothwall? In the forums on smoothwall.org it says I need to upload the files, how would I go about doing that?

Sorry for the stupid questions, but I can't figure out how to do it. :o

Again, thanks for the help! :D
 
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I find my usage report bang on actually.
I can account for pretty muich what i used.
It might be an admin problem of sorts
Now if only they could get the service working properly HA HA.
the advantage of them having such a slow service is you use less bandwidth LMFAO
:D :D
 
It could be that people who experience full speeds when capped, is actually using someone else's cap
 
TheYak said:
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My next question is: How do I install mods onto Smoothwall? In the forums on smoothwall.org it says I need to upload the files, how would I go about doing that?
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Yep that was the next thing on the list after the box is working :)

This is relatively easy, what you need to do is download onto your Windoze PC (or any PC you use to access the SWE2 web interface) all 6 mods (available ATM) from:
  1. http://www.smoothwall.org/updates/2.0/fixes1.html
  2. http://www.smoothwall.org/updates/2.0/fixes2.html
  3. http://www.smoothwall.org/updates/2.0/fixes3.html
  4. http://www.smoothwall.org/updates/2.0/fixes4.html
  5. http://www.smoothwall.org/updates/2.0/fixes5.html
  6. http://www.smoothwall.org/updates/2.0/fixes6.html
As soon as you have those downloaded, go to the SWE2 web interface, click on maintenance, which should give you the updates page already selected, then you need to click on the Browse button at the bottom of the page, and then upload fix#1, when it is done, click on the web interface's shutdown link, and restart SWE2, when it is back up again it will make a specific beepy noise, and you can then browse & upload fix#2, reboot, continue with the same procedure until you have done all 6 fixes in sequence with reboots inbetween.
 
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Ok, just read that again - perhaps you've already loaded on the fixes via the SWE2 web interface, in that case you want to know how to load stuff like SmokePing etc...?

If so, you need to enable SSH via the services > remote access links, then use an SSH client to get root access to the SWE2 box (i.e. more control than the web interface allows), you can use the builtin java web interface app (tools > shell), or you can install something like putty (Google for it but beware of altered copies that might have bundled malware) or OpenSSH (SourceForge.net project), then you use those clients to scp or whatever the mod instructions tell you on the SW forums/threads to copy the tar ball over to the SWE2 box via SSH.

I hope that sort of makes sense - I am new to Linux so it is likely to be a tad full of holes in the explanation department ;).

Added: One last thing - unless you intend to SSH into your SWE2 box from outside you intranet/LAN, be sure to disable SSH via the remote access service link when you have finished doing what you needed to do.
 
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ic said:
Ok, just read that again - perhaps you've already loaded on the fixes via the SWE2 web interface, in that case you want to know how to load stuff like SmokePing etc...?
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Yep.. got the fixes installed allready - all six of them. I would like to install a Bandwidth meter/manager of sorts so I can make sure that WBS aren't talking nonsense wrt my BW usage.

I downloaded PuTTY as well as a whole bunch of other things:

PuTTY (the Telnet and SSH client itself)
PSCP (an SCP client, i.e. command-line secure file copy)
PSFTP (an SFTP client, i.e. general file transfer sessions much like FTP)
PuTTYtel (a Telnet-only client)
Plink (a command-line interface to the PuTTY back ends)
Pageant (an SSH authentication agent for PuTTY, PSCP and Plink)
PuTTYgen (an RSA and DSA key generation utility).

So I have to go and see if I can get this working tonight... I have the instructions on how to install the MOD once it's uploaded to the machine, the uploading is the problem - I have no idea how to do that. :confused:

Thanks again for the help IC, you're a lifesaver! :D
 
slimothy said:
rofl newb
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LOL! Sod off! :D

Remember: You were a newb once as well... :)

edit: I managed to FTP onto it using good 'ol FileZilla! :D

Okay... now to figure out the rest! :eek:
 
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