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You can also see a Search box above the table on the right. If you enter in an IP address or
partial IP, the report will filter results to only display active connections for the selected IP.
Below each IP you can see links to open several new IP Reports, as circled below: “C” for IP
to Country Lookup, “DNS” for DNS Lookup, “AR” for All Rules Lookup, and new in software
update 8.1 “T” for Traffic History by IP Graph. All of these IP Reports are described in detail
in the
IP Reports
section.
Fields of the RTR Active Connections Report
Field
Definition
Index
Table row #
SRC Port
The source port for this connection
DST Port
The destination port for this connection (the service being requested http, FTP, etc.)
Wavg
A weighted average of total bytes on this connection per second for the last eight
seconds. Used to determine if the flow is a bandwidth hog (over Hog Minimum,
which defaults to 12000 bytes).
Avg
The average in bytes per second since this IP pair came into the table
DST IP
Destination
IP address involved in the connection.
SRC IP
Source
IP address involved in the connection
Ptcl
The protocol (ICMP, TCP/IP, UDP).
For IPv6 traffic mapped to an IPv4 address, this will show “- -“
Port
Outbound (value = 1) or Inbound (value = 2).
Pool
Pool #. Default is 0 (no bandwidth pools set-up). Otherwise, bandwidth pool #. If
you have VLANs set-up, this will show the VLAN #.
TOS
0 if bit not set ("off"). Greater than 0 (>0) if bit is set ("on").
As of
software update 8.2
and above, Active Connections includes IPv6 traffic, to help those
running dual stacks (IPv4/IPv6) and to prepare for the migration over to full IPv6. When we
examined real IPv6 traffic on a live network, as expected the upper bytes in the address
rarely, if ever, changed. So by taking the lower 24 bits of the IPv6 address and mapping
that into a locally unique IPv4 address, we can show and shape all the traffic in one table.
We will now look at IPv6 traffic that has been mapped to IPv4 address space. From the
NetEqualizer Dashboard,
Click on -> [
Dynamic RTR
] on the Common Tasks bar.
On the RTR Menu
on the left-hand side of the screen,
Click on ->
Active Connections
->
View Active
Connections
. The following screen comes up:
This Active Connections table is now supporting a dual stack. Rows where the Ptcl is blank
“--“ (circled in the table above) are the IPv6 rows. You can also see that the DST IP and
SRC IP for these rows are in IPv4 format.
