Nope those rules still dont work :/

What does the ipfw show output look like now?

Router# ipfw show
30170 83302 4405918 count ip from 208.53.175.170 to any
31000 3931 915846 count ip from any to any out
31170 114659 168752428 count ip from any to 208.53.175.170
32000 312410 180665900 count ip from any to any in
65535 1704045 1085587420 allow ip from any to any
Router#

Well, you're getting counts now at least. Is the MRTG report inaccurate or just empty, and which rules are you basing the MRTG counts off of? The ones that have the 170 IP or the any any rules?

im not looking at the entire total yet in looking at the mrtg output for the .170

I have a 1.63M/s wget session running on .170 right now
and mrtg on my bridge is saying this
Current In: 8198.8 kb/s

its being HIGHLY inaccurate.

change kb to mb

meaning -- 8198.8 kb/s = ~1.X MB/sec

Its pulling at 1.63Mbit per second which is 208 KB
1.63MB per second would be 1669KB

either way its no way near 8,000KB

If wget is running 1.63M/sec (big M as in bytes) that's ~13000kb (little k as in bits). Due to the fact that wget isn't famous for being accurate (I've FTP'd at 160mbit on a 100mbit link before according to wget), I'd trust the kernel first. It's easy to test though. Put a big file on the other machine, run time wget file and see how long it takes. Divide filesize by seconds and that will give you bytes (multiply by 8 for bits of course). Then compare that to MRTG's output.

Devin# time wget ftp://ftp6.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/r...i386-disc2.iso
--18:27:37-- ftp://ftp6.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/r...i386-disc2.iso
=> `5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso'
Resolving ftp6.freebsd.org... done.
Connecting to ftp6.freebsd.org[207.172.2.141]:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/5.3 ... done.
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso ... done.
Length: 650,215,424 (unauthoritative)

100%[========================================================================================>] 650,215,424 1.60M/s ETA 00:00

18:34:04 (1.60 MB/s) - `5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso' saved [650215424]

14.240u 44.315s 6:27.18 15.1% 226+367k 4+4975io 0pf+0w
Devin#

so
650,215,424 (size) divided by 387.18 (seconds) gives me 1679362.1158117671367322692287825 bytes?

times 8 gives me 13,434,896.92 bits
then divide by 1024 to get Kb which is 13,120.01 Kb/sec
then divide by 1024 to get KB which is 1,640KB/sec
then divide once more by 1024 to get Megabytes which is 1.60MB
which is equivilent to 12.8125 Mbit

that look right?

For benchmarking I've found ttcp to be pretty useful. I'm pretty sure it's in the ports tree (it is for OpenBSD).

Nice work sigsegv. It looks like you're handle might be a bit of a misnomer, since it's hard to find "fault" with your advice