How to monitor my internet breakout

[Mike-r]

Hey guys,

I'm really struggling to get my head around this one and I'm an ex network engineer, lol

So currently I have a 200 Mbps fibre from a SP into my house. I'm using a router that doesn't support NETFLOW but I want to know what my daily usage and uptime is as I am seeing some intermittent 10 second packet loss and VPN disconnects. Every time I see this its basically to late to investigate as utilization dropped by then and the link is stable again.

I'm looking for a hardware device similar to a Meraki SD WAN BOX that can track the utilization and packet loss but that's completely stand alone, meaning you dont need to configure the service in the cloud on another Meraki box.

I've done many Google searches but I always see software that needs to be installed and seeing that my router does not support NETFLOW this will be pointless.

Do need a firewall to see this info?

Thank you in advance.

 

[Mike-r]

Bump

 

[Qui_Illustrati]

Maybe try Sophos UTM. Has great capabilities as well as monitoring and logging. Might just get you visibility into your issue.

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[Senshi]

Maybe try Sophos UTM. Has great capabilities as well as monitoring and logging. Might just get you visibility into your issue.

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You could also try Pfsense and have it act as the router/gateway between your current setup and entry point.

I've had mixed results with PFSense but this was a good 7 years back.

 

[Caliph]

Jeff Geerling got a nice project that uses a Pi:

The Internet Pi runs Pi-hole for DNS privacy and ad-blocking, and Prometheus and Grafana to provide Internet connection monitoring dashboards.

More info:

See here

 

[marcocam]

use mikrotik supports netflow

 

[Mike-r]

Thank bud,

Any idea where i can get 1 GB cheap MikroTik?

 

[mzezman]

Hi Mike, are you looking to move to the Mikrotik for good or just as a test? I have a hap ac2 not being used at the moment (its my backup) and if you are in GP i could loan it to you?

 

[Mike-r]

Hi Mike, are you looking to move to the Mikrotik for good or just as a test? I have a hap ac2 not being used at the moment (its my backup) and if you are in GP i could loan it to you?

That's a super nice gesture bud. Thank you so much but I would like to buy one if you could maybe help get one for a good price?

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[mzezman]

That's a super nice gesture bud. Thank you so much but I would like to buy one if you could maybe help get one for a good price?

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would this be out of your budget >> https://carbonite.co.za/index.php?threads/mikrotik-hap-ac2.406122/

 

[ToughGuy]

Hey guys,

I'm really struggling to get my head around this one and I'm an ex network engineer, lol

So currently I have a 200 Mbps fibre from a SP into my house. I'm using a router that doesn't support NETFLOW but I want to know what my daily usage and uptime is as I am seeing some intermittent 10 second packet loss and VPN disconnects. Every time I see this its basically to late to investigate as utilization dropped by then and the link is stable again.

I'm looking for a hardware device similar to a Meraki SD WAN BOX that can track the utilization and packet loss but that's completely stand alone, meaning you dont need to configure the service in the cloud on another Meraki box.

I've done many Google searches but I always see software that needs to be installed and seeing that my router does not support NETFLOW this will be pointless.

Do need a firewall to see this info?

Thank you in advance.

Quick question - if you use the router that was provided to you by your ISP, they should give you a portal login & you could definitely monitor the statistics of your network.

Considering that you are using a different router, try for any other options that you can monitor your network speed

 

[souljazk]

1) Check router logs & save them. You'll start to see some pattern in the logs
2) PRTG has a good monitoring solution that is free to monitor the router.
2.1) Use PRTG + Uptime robot or Freshping to monitor your public IP.
2.2) Uptime Kuma (runs in docker) is also great.
3) What is your LAN DHCP lease time?