Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 22:26 Post subject: Home Network Monitoring, Assessment, Reporting, etc
I'm just getting started on this quest so looking for any general advice (or specific) on where to look, what to consider, etc.
I have a simple home DD-WRT network (archer C7 v2 hard-wired to my cable modem, everything connects wirelessly to the archer) and am interested in doing some simple monitoring of the network, I think but I could be wrong, I'm looking for something beyond the reporting that DD-WRT status can show me. I'm interested in such things as local LAN speed (ideally, something to indicate if it's performing well or poorly), WAN speed (up and down), historically connected devices (ideally, showing how often they connect and for how long), works with guest networks (i.e, can isolate out that traffic), and probably other things as I think through this some more.
I guess this might require multiple tools, though fewer and integrated is better.
I'm not looking to be anal about this, I'm thinking something I might check once a month, and I'm not paranoid but am interested in periodically blocking devices that I don't recognize.
My main goal at this time is to do what I can to simply maintain a healthy environment.
I appreciate any and all help, guidance, suggestions.
Look up Yamon, that is going to do some, but the rest can be more of a challenge.
For example, what do you consider LAN or WAN speed? The negotiated hardware speed or the throughput or even what rate you are paying for. Then on speed it depends on what site you are connected to as well, each can be different. Your wireless network speed can vary based on wireless traffic or interference, or even battery powersave mode.
Look up Yamon, that is going to do some, but the rest can be more of a challenge.
For example, what do you consider LAN or WAN speed? The negotiated hardware speed or the throughput or even what rate you are paying for. Then on speed it depends on what site you are connected to as well, each can be different. Your wireless network speed can vary based on wireless traffic or interference, or even battery powersave mode.
Thank you. I'll take a look at Yamon.
Re: speed, throughput is the main interest now. I'm mostly interested in LAN speed. I have often wondered if my setup is performing at par or sub par.
Look up Yamon, that is going to do some, but the rest can be more of a challenge.
For example, what do you consider LAN or WAN speed? The negotiated hardware speed or the throughput or even what rate you are paying for. Then on speed it depends on what site you are connected to as well, each can be different. Your wireless network speed can vary based on wireless traffic or interference, or even battery powersave mode.
Thank you. I'll take a look at Yamon.
Re: speed, throughput is the main interest now. I'm mostly interested in LAN speed. I have often wondered if my setup is performing at par or sub par.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Al _________________ Thanks to everyone for supporting YAMon!
If you use and like YAMon and have not done so recently, please consider making a donation - thanks!
YAMon GitHub Repository
Look up Yamon, that is going to do some, but the rest can be more of a challenge.
For example, what do you consider LAN or WAN speed? The negotiated hardware speed or the throughput or even what rate you are paying for. Then on speed it depends on what site you are connected to as well, each can be different. Your wireless network speed can vary based on wireless traffic or interference, or even battery powersave mode.
Thank you. I'll take a look at Yamon.
Re: speed, throughput is the main interest now. I'm mostly interested in LAN speed. I have often wondered if my setup is performing at par or sub par.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Al _________________ Thanks to everyone for supporting YAMon!
If you use and like YAMon and have not done so recently, please consider making a donation - thanks!
YAMon GitHub Repository
I am having some trouble installing Yamon. I can run the wget command on the router and it appears to download the install.sh file into /tmp, but the subsequent CP command fails (without error in Putty but if I try using WinSCP to copy install.sh from my PC I get error code 4). Any thoughts?
I am having some trouble installing Yamon. I can run the wget command on the router and it appears to download the install.sh file into /tmp, but the subsequent CP command fails (without error in Putty but if I try using WinSCP to copy install.sh from my PC I get error code 4). Any thoughts?
Could be that I don't know Linux well enough.
Where are you trying to copy the file? To /opt?
Error code 4 could mean that /opt is read-only
Do you have a USB drive attached to your router? If no, you need one.
If yes, is it mounted to /opt? Check by going to the DD-WRT Admin UI-->Services-->USB
Al _________________ Thanks to everyone for supporting YAMon!
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Rob - I have updated the instructions on that page to include the following:
* confirm that you have write permissions in `/opt/`
ls -laL "/opt" | grep ' .$'
You should see something like:
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 1024 Jan 3 12:07
If you are missing a `w` in the third character of the output above - e.g., `dr-xr-xr-x` , you do *not* have write permission in that folder and cannot continue the steps below until you've fix this issue.
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Thank you for your help Al. I got it installed. The main issue was not having the USB attached. Once I partitioned the USB (on another machine), attached it, then set up DD-WRT to recognize it, I was able to perform the install. I did have a secondary issue in that /opt/install.sh didn't have the correct permission (even after running chmod a couple of times), but I fixed that in WinSCP.
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