Comments on: Tomato Bandwidth Monitor with Windows 7

By: Philip

Philip — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:24:21 +0000

I find more interesting things when I move to another new router, but same model!

Check this out on what I discover:

1. I move my previous stats from old router to this new router.
2. It would not save because you have to manually do your own FIRST save!
3. Then go in configure your CIFS Client and Bandwidth monitor freq on this new router
4. Now it will SAVE on the next one
5. Not using symbolic link still work

Let me know if I am drunk. Thanks!

By: Philip

Philip — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:14:27 +0000

I got it working now.

I have to do one thing:

Right click the destination folder – Sharing tab – Advance Sharing – Permission button – Add button – Add the user (from above). I give it Full Control with Change and Read all tick.

Go to your Bandwidth in Tomato. Click Daily – Configure – Hit SAVE and watch your Window directory and it get updated right away. I put in 1 hr for auto.

I delete the LINK thing and it still work. I have my directory buried 2 folders in and it still work.

Let me know if I am wrong.

By: Philip

Philip — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:46:49 +0000

Yes, I did it many hours ago. I have it save at 1 hr in Admin-Bandwith Monitoring. But it still not saving it.

After running that command prompt in admin mode, it create a LINK on my c: drive.

I use my desktop login n pwd and have that folder shared as I can see it too my network folder.

What am I doing wrong?

By: tonyscha

tonyscha — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:26:41 +0000

Philip:

What is simlik? Is that an .exe?
Or I create a .bat file?
I am lost past step #3.
Thanks for helping.

Philip, run this command, just change the directories to what you want.

C:\mklink /D C:\tomato “C:\Users\tonyscha\My Dropbox\tomato”

By: Philip

Philip — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:48:58 +0000

What is simlik? Is that an .exe?

Or I create a .bat file?

I am lost past step #3.

Thanks for helping.

By: tonyscha

tonyscha — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:12:09 +0000

As far as I can tell the file inside of the .gz is a pure binary file, and is not human readable.

As for the logging of a particular IP or blocked addresses, I recommend checking out http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=160 as a source, and ask the question there, as I am not a huge router/script person.

By: Jay Richard

Jay Richard — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:02:13 +0000

Thanks for the simlik command. I am running TomatoUSB (Teddybear) 1.28 on an Asus Rt-N16 under Windows Xp-SP3. I have successfuly gotten CIFS working, the drive mounted okay. The logs are not backing up on the schedule that I requested and it only backs up to a .gz file. When I extract the .gz, I have a file with no extension. I have tried .txt, .htm. .html. .xml and the file is not readable. What do I use to see this file.? It is only 2 kb in size or so. Also, actually all I want is backup of web usage for a particular IP on my network. Ideally I would also like to see the blocked addresses, too. Is there a script that I can use to make this happen? My previous (netgear) router just sent the logs to my e-mail.