[IPCop-user] Unexplained uploads

[Jaco S. <ja...@ne...>]

 

IP Cop setup

 

Network (green) IPCOP Box (Red) ADSL router

 

-IPCop version 1.4.13

-Add-on server 2.3 b2

-TrafficControlAndReport-1.1 Mod

 

The IPCop server has two network cards the card configured as green is
connected to the main network and the card configured as red to the ADSL
Ethernet router. The network users use the IPCop server as their gateway.
The gateway for the IPCop server uses the router as its gateway.

 

The problem

 

In South Africa, our ADSL works on a Cap system. That means you buy a
certain amount of bandwidth from your ISP and when it is used up you get
disconnected until you buy some more. Yes, I know this sucks. The problem is
that we have been using way too much of our cap without being able to
explain where it goes and that is why I added the IPCop server. Since I
installed IPCop our daily upload totals has increased ten fold. We use to
upload about 20 or 30 MB a day now we all of a sudden do about 200 MB a day
easily. To try to find the underlying cause of this I installed the
TrafficControlAndReport add-on and configured it to block all connection
except a select group of IP's to limit unauthorized use. This has halved the
Uploads reported by the ISP. The thing that I cannot understand is that
according to the TrafficControlAndReport Report I should only be using half
the bandwidth the ISP claims that I use. They seem to think that their
reporting is correct and IPCop wrong. This is driving me insane, as
everything seems to be running fine except for the usage difference. I
really like the control IPCop gives us but not at the expense of using 50%
more bandwidth then what we use to.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

Below is a sample log form one day with the ISP Statistics at the bottom:

 

Report from IPcop: ipcop.
 
 
Users traffic during 07 Mar 2007: 
 
Name                   Iface   Bytes               in Mb     
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
User1                  GREEN   8236344             7.9
User2                  GREEN   759081              0.7
User3                  GREEN   3594837             3.4
User4                  GREEN   287885              0.3
User5                  GREEN   1797131             1.7
User6                  GREEN   9507010             9.1
User7                  GREEN   8325732             7.9
User8                  GREEN   9056425             8.6
Summary users downloaded 39.6 Mb from ipcop box.
 
 
Users total month traffic is:
 
Name                   Iface   Bytes               in Mb
=======================================================================
User1                  GREEN   30025135            28.6
User2                  GREEN   18649814            17.8
User3                  GREEN   13132356            12.5
Usre4                  GREEN   4229438             4.0
User5                  GREEN   11699877            11.2
User6                  GREEN   25076597            23.9
User7                  GREEN   16633050            15.9
User8                  GREEN   20819828            19.9
 
Summary users downloaded 133.8 Mb from ipcop box.
 
IPCOP box traffic during 07 Mar 2007 is 40546706 bytes (38.7 Mb) .
 

 

Report from ISP:

 

SAGE FOR: Wednesday, 07 March, 2007
TOTAL USED: 124.8MB 



Time Started

Time Ended

Data Sent (MB)

Data Received (MB)

Total (MB)


07 Mar 2007 10:32:21

08 Mar 2007 10:32:34

90.0

34.8

124.8


TOTAL

90.0

34.8

124.8