Ever since I setup mrtg on my OpenWRT router, I’ve been noticing that between 2pm and 8pm PST, there’s a huge spike in my outgoing bandwidth. I’ve been trying to track it down, and briefly suspected it was my TiVoHD ‘phoning home’ and sending back megs and megs of clickstream logs (but I don’t watch [...]
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I’ve looked around on the web for a while for easy instructions about how to setup an mrtg installation to monitor my OpenWRT router’s throughput. Here are my easy instructions for getting this setup up and running: Note: At first, I didn’t realize that mrtg would run on a remote machine. I didn’t try getting [...]
Continue Reading →After chatting with friends over lunch about OpenDNS, I’ve decided to give it a try. What I’m mostly interested in is the anti-phishing and typo correction services, which seem pretty cool. It went pretty smoothly, although they didn’t have any instructions about how to update my OpenWRT router to OpenDNS. (thats no surprise!). The secret [...]
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