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Note: I originally asked this on ServerFault but got directed here...

I'd like to find out how much time someone is spending on FarmVille on Facebook. All of our traffic goes through a Linksys router with Tomato. Is there an easy way to log the hits to the FarmVille app?

Traffic could come through multiple computers hence the reason for wanting to track via the router.

Just wanting to find out some facts about the usage before I confront them.

And this is really kind of only for fun and not anything official or serious. Involves a member of the family. OK, my wife. Again though, not a big issue and if it were I would approach it more honestly. This seems like more fun though.

Thanks, Matt

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hehe my wife is addicted to that game as well. So much so that I now have quite a large farm on my facebook account that she also plays on. – Matt Oct 30 at 12:39
Don't have experience with it myself but OpenDNS does offer logging/stats, you may be able to set that up but I'm not 100% sure and being at work I can't try it. Then jsut set the router to use OpenDNS to do it's DNS – Matt Oct 30 at 13:46
Ah yes, OpenDNS is an option. I currently use route through that. Does anyone know whether the traffic for FarmVille goes to Facebook or to FarmVille servers? I don't play it so I don't have any easy way to test (nor do I want to sign up for FarmVille to test it). For now I will see what my logging options are on OpenDNS. – mattsmith321 Oct 30 at 16:22
Not sure if OpenDNS will work. Won't a call only be made to OpenDNS to lookup the address the first time and subsequent calls are cached locally? Or does every single call go through them? – mattsmith321 Oct 30 at 18:55

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Not sure if it will work with your particular linksys device, but check out this article/tool on codeproject:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vb/VbNetLinkSysLog.aspx

linksyslog

with a bit of ingenuity, I'm sure you could modify this tool to persist the logs, perhaps in a database so that you can write aggregate reports over a daterange for the info you're looking for ;-)

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I just found an article about Tomato that describes your problem: How to: Manage Traffice Using Tomato.

You can define several Traffic classes via port and destination. Theses classes can be tracked. It's originally a QoS function but you can use it to track how websites are used.

Another way would be Wireshark. There are lots of programs that can analyze a Wireshark dump for traffic stats, so start to google ;)

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