(Profile - Servers - Hotspot) eating bandwidth

infozone · Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:27 am

my "profile" of the "Servers" of the "hotspot" is eating a considerable amount of bandwidth ..
where does this bandwidth goes? however I can limit this bandwidth but would it effect the
performance of some functions of the MT? and how if the answer is yes ?

Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:24 am

How do you measure, that 'my "profile" of the "Servers" of the "hotspot" is eating a considerable amount of bandwidth ' ?
You can monitor real-time traffic trought the router by using 'torch'.

infozone · Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:59 am

well ...my WAN interface is at different times of the day download and upload some amount of bandwidth that is not routed to the LAN interface or the web proxy , besides when I checked the queue list in queues , I found that this (profile --> servers-->hotspot) has a 380 MB of download and 200 MB of upload per 7 days ....

skillful · Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:42 pm

if your WAN interface has a high amount of bandwidth usage that is not routed to the LAN interface, then your router might be acting as an "open proxy" on the internet. Secure your router with firewall rules to block proxy relay on your wan interface.

infozone · Sat Apr 07, 2007 9:35 am

well skillfull, I already closed my router from being a relay through web proxy rules ... and I will check this probobility again ..thanx

nazadnan2003 · Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:20 am

well skillfull, I already closed my router from being a relay through web proxy rules ... and I will check this probobility again ..thanx

Dear infozone / skillfull:
Can you please explain how to do this? because I have the same problem in my router.

Regards

infozone · Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:26 pm

Well Naz, you should add at least the following rules to IP==> Web Proxy:-
/ ip web-proxy access
add src-address=192.168.?.0/? action=allow comment="Allow Access from Local \
Network" disabled=no
add dst-port=23-25 action=deny comment="block telnet & spam e-mail relaying" \
disabled=no
add dst-port=3128 action=deny comment="Block Web Proxy Relaying" disabled=no
add action=deny comment="Deny Everything else" disabled=no