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Your ISP, if you are reselling bandwidth or provide an amenity, is concerned about this issue
as well. They are subject to the same Safe Harbor rules to avoid liability. If you are able to
provide a robust response to their threatening takedown letters, it may be less likely that
they will throttle or cancel your connection, disrupting your business.
Subscriber Connection Logging
Connection Logging Functionality
Select
Enable
to record every session opened by
subscribers.
Packet Types
Select the Packet Types to record. Most traffic is TCP based, but
some file sharing uses UDP as well.
TFTP Server
You must provide a TFTP server on the WAN port to receive the
logs. Make sure your TFTP server is configured to accept files
from the Controller WAN IP address.
Log Upload Schedule
The upload schedule for the Subscriber TCP/UDP Connection Log
can be configured. The default value of Auto sends the log only
when it is full, which could be hours or days on a Controller that
is not busy. The log will be sent early if it is full before the
configured interval.
Connection Log Contents
The Controller automatically records every subscriber connection internally. After about 15k
records the log is compressed and processed with User IDs and sent to the TFTP server. If
the TFTP server is unavailable, the Controller will try three times to send the file, after that
the file is lost because the internal log is filling again and must be processed. If the Controller
is restarted the current log, of whatever size, is automatically sent.
The compressed Connection Log is about 100-200KB. Uncompressed it is about 1.5MB. The
compression is gZip, so any typical compression tool should open it. A single site will generate
from a few Megabytes up to a Gigabyte of compressed logs per day, so plan storage according
to how busy your sites are and how long you plan to keep the logs.
The Log itself is a .csv containing the following fields:
Timestamp –
Date and Time of session
Open
/
Stop
– Marks the beginning or end of the session