Recording and displaying total internet traffic.
Now I have 3G radio broadband, this is fast but its also expensive. I wish to be able to show the total amount of data thats travelled both ways on a particular interface, eg eth1 or ppp0. The idea being I can easily see how much data/dollars I have used to allow me to manage my internet usage better. It would not be chronically difficult to write a script to be run with poff that displayed total traffic as displayed by ifconfig. I wonder if there already is a way around this. Lindsay
Now I have 3G radio broadband, this is fast but its also expensive. I wish to be able to show the total amount of data thats travelled both ways on a particular interface, eg eth1 or ppp0.
The idea being I can easily see how much data/dollars I have used to allow me to manage my internet usage better.
It would not be chronically difficult to write a script to be run with poff that displayed total traffic as displayed by ifconfig. I wonder if there already is a way around this.
vnstat? http://humdi.net/vnstat/ James
On 13 July 2015 at 00:57, <zlinw@mcmedia.com.au> wrote:
Now I have 3G radio broadband, this is fast but its also expensive. I wish to be able to show the total amount of data thats travelled both ways on a particular interface, eg eth1 or ppp0. The idea being I can easily see how much data/dollars I have used to allow me to manage my internet usage better. It would not be chronically difficult to write a script to be run with poff that displayed total traffic as displayed by ifconfig. I wonder if there already is a way around this. Lindsay \
Have you checked your ISPs web site? Sometimes there's tools available from their support pages that you can run locally. -- Colin Fee tfeccles@gmail.com
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