Get source and destination of outbound traffic in pfSense

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Published on 2010-04-20T22:28:45Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 22:33 UTC
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I'm looking at the traffic graph in pfSense (Version 1.2.2), which we're using as a router / NAT / ect on our network. Recently, I'm seeing a sudden, constant spike of 15 - 30kbps traffic outbound, that is unusual for our network (normally its below 2kbps, we're mostly all inbound traffic)

Is there any way to determine what the source of this traffic is, or where it's going? (Just an internal IP address for source, and external IP address for destination would be all I need)

I've already tried switching the traffic graph to 'LAN' and watching the host list on the right side, but it seems ... flakey. The numbers it shows seem to fade in and out at random, and the values never add up to anywhere near the graph values.

I'm not allowed to post the image, but a photo is available at -> http://imgur.com/QYjKI.png

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