RE: Recording and displaying total internet traffic.

Many thanks for the replies, James reply put me on the track, vnstat just reads /proc/net/dev this give full stats for all up interfaces. All I need to do is when ppp0 comes up is to start reading /proc/net/dev and feed it to grep ppp0, extracting the transmit and recieve count will be trivial. Flamming horrible weather must be making my brain freeze. Up here in NE Vic we normall get frost mornings and sunny days. We have had lots of cloudy days either drizzle (mostly) or rain top temperatures of between 7 and 10 degrees. To cold to do anything outside particularly in the machine shop. My fitness program has gone completely to the dogs.........sigh...... Lindsay