IP Traffic Monitoring lets you record and graphically display bandwidth usage. IP Traffic Monitoring is similar to Bandwidth Monitoring, but it categorizes the data by individual LAN IP address.

IPT uses FreshTomato's cstats module to function. By default, IP Traffic Monitoring data are stored in: “/tmp/mnt/logs/cstats”.

Enable: Checking this starts the IP Traffic Monitoring service.

Save History Location: Here, you select where history data will be saved. Data stored in RAM (the default) will not survive a reboot.

The options include:

• RAM * (Default)
• JFFS2
• CIFS 1
• CIFS 2
• Custom Path (External/USB storage)

Save Frequency: This setting defines how often cstats data should be committed to the save location.

Save On Shutdown: This forces cstats to save the data file when shutting down or rebooting.

Create New File: This option initializes/resets IP Traffic Monitoring data.

Create Backups: This appears if you choose a location other than RAM for History Location.

History data is backed up daily.

First Day Of The Month: Specifies the first day of the monthly cycle. Setting this to match your ISP's billing cycle can help you track bandwidth costs.

Excluded IPs: Here, you enter any IP addresses not to be monitored by the service. The list must be comma-separated.

Included IPs: Here, enter the IP addresses you want to monitor. The list must be comma-separated. You can't edit in this field if Enable Auto-Discovery is enabled.

Enable Auto-Discovery: Automatically includes new IP addresses for monitoring as soon as their traffic is detected. If checked, you won't be able to edit the Included IPs field. Instead, a red null character (“ø“) is displayed.

Labels on graphics: This lets you adjust the way graphing data is displayed.

• Show known hostnames and IPs - will display both hostnames and IP addresses.
• Prefer to show only hostnames otherwise show IP addresses - if hostnames aren't found, IP addresses are displayed.
• Show only IPs - will always show only IP addresses.

Here, you can manually Backup and Restore cstats data files to a PC or other device. You can edit the backup file name in the field under “Backup”. Backup files are saved in .gzip, a compressed file format. Gzip files can be opened with archive software on most operating systems.

Clicking on Browse… lets you browse your client device's storage to find an existing backup file to restore. Clicking the “Restore” button will restore that file's data to the IP Traffic Monitoring log system.