IP Traffic Monitoring allows you to 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 is stored in: /tmp/mnt/logs/cstats.

Enable: Starts the IP Traffic Monitoring service.

Save History Location:

Here, you select where historical data will be saved. Data stored in RAM (the default) will not survive a reboot.

• 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 optoin initializes/resets IP Traffic Monitoring data.

Create Backups: If you choose a location other than RAM for History Location this option appears. Daily Backups are made for historical data.

First Day Of The Month: This specifies the first day of each monthly cycle. Setting this to match your ISP's billing cycle might help you track/manage 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, you enter the IP addresses you want monitored by the service. The list must be comma-separated.

Enable Auto-Discovery: Checking this automatically includes new IP addresses for monitoring as soon as their traffic is detected.

Labels on graphics: Here, you adjust the way graphing data is displayed.

• Show known hostnames and IPs - This will display both hostnames and IPs.
• Prefer to show only hostnames otherwise show IPs - If hostnames aren't available, IP addresses will be displayed.
• Show only IPs - This will always show only IP addresses.

Here, you can manually Backup and Restore cstats data 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 the Browse… button 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.