Logging outbound traffic on a W3K router...

Hi,

For the past couple of months, our WAN usage has started to exceed our
budget. We need a way to log incoming and outgoing bytes per ip
address so that we can build daily bandwidth consumption reports. The
Linksys router that we were using does not provide byte count
(although it gave a list of incoming and outgoing ip addresses). So I
configured a Windows 2003 Server with two network cards and enabled
routing on the box. The "enable firewall" setting even provides an
option to create a log file that shows the incoming and outgoing
connections and the data size that is used during the transfer.

Here is the problem.

The data that is logged shows incoming/outgoing connections on the WAN
network card, not on the LAN network card. I never get to see any IP
address for the LAN. I fail to see any setting that I can enable on
the LAN network card to log information about the connection that is
being routed

The Linksys router at least showed the LAP ip addresses :-(.

Did I just missing something? Is there any setting that I can enable
to log the data that I am looking for?

Thank you in advance for enlightening me.

Pradeep

You really need something like Microsoft ISA to do such which can generate a
lot of reports. You can download a fully fictional time limited trial
version [ at the link below] if you want to see if it suits your needs. In
secure NAT mode, all you have to do is configure your computers to use the
ISA server as their default gateway. If you use it as proxy server for
Internet Explorer you can get more detailed use on usage by users. I find
that ISA 2004 is easy to use and a nice improvement over ISA 2000. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/evaluation/trial/

"Pradeep" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> For the past couple of months, our WAN usage has started to exceed our
> budget. We need a way to log incoming and outgoing bytes per ip
> address so that we can build daily bandwidth consumption reports. The
> Linksys router that we were using does not provide byte count
> (although it gave a list of incoming and outgoing ip addresses). So I
> configured a Windows 2003 Server with two network cards and enabled
> routing on the box. The "enable firewall" setting even provides an
> option to create a log file that shows the incoming and outgoing
> connections and the data size that is used during the transfer.
>
> Here is the problem.
>
> The data that is logged shows incoming/outgoing connections on the WAN
> network card, not on the LAN network card. I never get to see any IP
> address for the LAN. I fail to see any setting that I can enable on
> the LAN network card to log information about the connection that is
> being routed
>
> The Linksys router at least showed the LAP ip addresses :-(.
>
> Did I just missing something? Is there any setting that I can enable
> to log the data that I am looking for?
>
> Thank you in advance for enlightening me.
>
> Pradeep