Broken traffic monitor?

[Luke]

None at this point, since I am unable to reproduce the problem, therefore have no idea what's causing it. Will most likely have to wait for Asus to fix it on their end.

I've been working with my ISP and it is a PPPOE issue, when using DHCP there are no issues but as soon as it's switch to PPPOE it start the broken traffic issue. What I don't know is if it's a firmware issue or not.

 

[RMerlin]

I've been working with my ISP and it is a PPPOE issue, when using DHCP there are no issues but as soon as it's switch to PPPOE it start the broken traffic issue. What I don't know is if it's a firmware issue or not.

The theories I have at this point:

1) The issue might occur when using a USB modem (i.e. tethering to a phone, using a 3G/4G modem) as the code tries to interface with "usb" instead of the actual ppp device

2) If you use PPPoE, it's possible the router is counting the raw traffic coming through the physical interface, and adding the traffic going through the ppp interface.

3) The traffic being doubled when using PPPoE might be caused by the WAN interface defaulting to DHCP + VPN

Can you try going to the WAN settings, and making sure that DHCP+VPN is not enabled?

 

[Luke]

3) The traffic being doubled when using PPPoE might be caused by the WAN interface defaulting to DHCP + VPN

Can you try going to the WAN settings, and making sure that DHCP+VPN is not enabled?

Mine WAS on by default but disabling it didn't change anything unfortunately.

 

[Luke]

Also, Ive tried flashing the router to start fresh but even if I go to stock firmware after flashing, in the system log things are still running (and failing obviously) from merlin. How would I flash it for real and remove ALL previous settings?

 

[RMerlin]

Also, Ive tried flashing the router to start fresh but even if I go to stock firmware after flashing, in the system log things are still running (and failing obviously) from merlin. How would I flash it for real and remove ALL previous settings?

Do a Factory Default reset.

 

[Luke]

Do a Factory Default reset.

I've tried that and entering recovery mode as well, I'm referring to openvpn, for some reason now matter how many times I factory reset or flash openvpn tries to start in system log on every other version I restore to.

 

[RMerlin]

I've tried that and entering recovery mode as well, I'm referring to openvpn, for some reason now matter how many times I factory reset or flash openvpn tries to start in system log on every other version I restore to.

OpenVPN is part of the original firmware too now, it's not just in my firmware.

 

[Luke]

OpenVPN is part of the original firmware too now, it's not just in my firmware.

Ah okay that must be what I'm seeing, thank you. Now just gotta figure out this traffic issue. Beyond what I've posted, I have no idea whats next, I'll see if I can set up wireshark or something to see WHAT data its sending.

 

[rydako]

The theories I have at this point:

1) The issue might occur when using a USB modem (i.e. tethering to a phone, using a 3G/4G modem) as the code tries to interface with "usb" instead of the actual ppp device

2) If you use PPPoE, it's possible the router is counting the raw traffic coming through the physical interface, and adding the traffic going through the ppp interface.

3) The traffic being doubled when using PPPoE might be caused by the WAN interface defaulting to DHCP + VPN

Can you try going to the WAN settings, and making sure that DHCP+VPN is not enabled?

Got the same issue here, let me know if there's anything that I could try to help uncover the bug. Would rather not factory reset until the final .40 build gets released as I've gotten my router pretty stable, but can if it'll help.

I have a RT-N66U with 3.0.0.4.374.39_0-em installed. I'm not using a USB modem, I've bridged my ISP modem/router and am using PPoE. I have DHCP enabled, but VPN disabled. I'm connected to VDSL2 and have a 40/10 connection. My traffic is not just being doubled, I'm seeing a massive increase as shown by my attached screenshots.

My router has been on without any resets for just over 3days.

-Note that no internal file transfers have been done since my last reset 3 days ago, my theoretical max line speed is 5248KBps/1280KBps -

Recorded global traffic
Last 24h

Totals from Last few days

Actual traffic - last 24h

Lmit of 4 images - 5Ghz was only ~1GB of usage

 

[Luke]

Pretty much exactly the same problem....super high data usage eeeeeveryday haha, real data is not even 1% of the total usage for me.

 

[Luke]

Anyone have any progress?

 

[RMerlin]

Folks having bogus numbers for traffic monitoring, please post the output of the following commands (run them through SSH, or from the Tools -> Run Cmd page):

nvram get wan_unit
nvram get wan0_ifname
nvram get wan1_ifname
nvram get wan_ifnames
cat /proc/net/dev

 

[rydako]

Folks having bogus numbers for traffic monitoring, please post the output of the following commands (run them through SSH, or from the Tools -> Run Cmd page):

nvram get wan_unit
nvram get wan0_ifname
nvram get wan1_ifname
nvram get wan_ifnames
cat /proc/net/dev

alex@RT-N66U:/tmp/home/root# nvram get wan_unit
0
alex@RT-N66U:/tmp/home/root# nvram get wan0_ifname
eth0
alex@RT-N66U:/tmp/home/root# nvram get wan1_ifname
usb
alex@RT-N66U:/tmp/home/root# nvram get wan_ifnames
eth0
alex@RT-N66U:/tmp/home/root# cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
 face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes    packe                                                                                                                                                             ts errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
    lo: 8209401   76225    0    0    0     0          0         0  8209401   762                                                                                                                                                             25    0    0    0     0       0          0
  eth0:3091780215 36305798    0    0    0     0          0         0 1350450702                                                                                                                                                              34035756    0    0    0     0       0          0
 vlan1:1717267145 12543626    0    0    0     0          0     60153 3424595644                                                                                                                                                              18303145    0    0    0     0       0          0
   br0:106559523 1139861    0    0    0     0          0    181709 186979839  96                                                                                                                                                             3249    0    0    0     0       0          0
  eth1:519800548 2980238    0    0    0 4332089          0         0 755863227 4                                                                                                                                                             830844  975    0    0     0       0          0
  eth2:108371856  783301    0    0    0 233447          0         0 1620587701 1                                                                                                                                                             760235  173    0    0     0       0          0
  ppp0:1803654927 1794453    0    0    0     0          0         0 126224841  9                                                                                                                                                             99145    0    0    0     0       0          0

 

[wbennett77]

Good evening,

My traffic monitor seems to have extreme numbers when set to "Global". When I set it to "Per Device" the numbers seem quite accurate.

Cheers!

 

[tijaune]

Hi Merlin,

my run...

echo `nvram get wan_unit` > log.txt
echo `nvram get wan0_ifname` >> log.txt
echo `nvram get wan1_ifname` >> log.txt
echo `nvram get wan_ifnames` >> log.txt
echo `cat /proc/net/dev` >> log.txt

0
eth0
usb
eth0
Inter-| Receive | Transmit face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed lo: 2240799 10657 0 0 0 0 0 0 2240799 10657 0 0 0 0 0 0 eth0:532542807 412381 0 0 0 0 0 0 593999272 729272 0 0 0 0 0 0 eth1:592453259 752006 0 0 0 53976 0 0 542106476 446814 8 0 0 0 0 0 eth2: 185744 1490 0 0 0 1390 0 0 1821789 12058 6 0 0 0 0 0 vlan1:85836369 94589 0 0 0 0 0 1202 567085145 415992 0 0 0 0 0 0 br0: 5519137 55543 0 0 0 0 0 3909 12577159 42406 0 0 0 0 0 0 ppp0:442335307 317318 0 0 0 0 0 0 24970359 312543 0 0 0 0 0 0

I noticed in WAN, I have "Enable VPN + DHCP Connection" on. Will disabled it, reset traffic monitor and observe following days. I believe I have this problem ongoing since month ago even before the 3.0.0.4.374.40.

good night

 

[RMerlin]

Good evening,

My traffic monitor seems to have extreme numbers when set to "Global". When I set it to "Per Device" the numbers seem quite accurate.

Cheers!

They use different methods. IPTraffic counts the traffic as it goes through Netfilter (which is why it's not compatible with HW acceleration), while global traffic is taken from the network interface stats.

Normally, it should take the traffic from the Internet interface, which would be vlan1 (unless using Dual WAN). I configured a PPPoE server on my LAN and gave it another try, and I still can't reproduce the issue here. Back on the pile of "I won't fix it" stuff for now.

 

[Luke]

After running those commands in tools cmd I get the following:

0
eth0
usb
eth0

 

[alby258]

Here is my run:

0
eth0
usb
eth0