Chapter 18 Basic statistics
Optionally, other columns providing information on volume of data transmitted in indi- vidual time periods in both directions can be displayed. Direction of data transmission is related to the interface (the IN direction stands for data received by the interface, while OUT represents data sent from the interface).
Example: The WinRoute host connects to the Internet through the Public interface and the local network is connected to the LAN interface. A local user downloads 10 MB of data from the Internet. This data will be counted as follows:
•IN at the Public interface is counted as an IN item (data from the Internet was received through this interface),
•at the LAN interface as OUT (data was sent to the local network through this inter- face).
Note: Interface statistics are saved into the stats.cfg configuration file in the WinRoute’s installation directory. This implies that they are not reset when the WinRoute Firewall Engine is closed.
Interface Statistics menu
A context menu providing the following options will be opened upon
Figure 18.2 Context menu for Interface statistics
Reset interface statistics
This option resets statistics of the selected interface. It is available only if the mouse pointer is hovering an interface at the moment when the context menu is opened.
Refresh
This option will refresh the information on the Interface Statistics tab immediately. This function is equal to the function of the Refresh button at the bottom of the window.