FVS338 ProSafe VPN Firewall 50 Reference Manual

Enabling the Traffic Meter

To monitor traffic limits on each of the WAN ports, select Administration from the main menu and Traffic Meter from the submenu. The Broadband Traffic Meter screen will display. (The Broadband and Dialup ports are programmed separately.) A WAN port shuts down once its traffic limit is reached if the Block all traffic feature is enabled.

The Traffic Meter screen also provides the following information:

Internet Traffic Statistics – Displays statistics on Internet Traffic via the WAN port. If you have not enabled the Traffic Meter, these statistics are not available.

Each WAN port is programmed separately.

WAN port shuts down once traffic limit reached. An e-mail can be sent.

Traffic Counter settings

Internet Traffic

Statistics

Figure 6-6

Traffic by Protocol – Click this button to display Internet Traffic details. The volume of traffic for each protocol will be displayed in a sub-window. Traffic counters are updated in MBytes scale and the counter starts only when traffic passed is at least 1 MB

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Router and Network Management

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