Hi,

I simply would like to measure how many Megabytes per day/month I download
and upload from/to the Inernet.

netstat -s and my dsl modem interface show me how many packets have been
transmitted and received since uptime, but packets quantity doesn't tell me
anything about the quantity.

simply speaking, I would like something like the kppp log (either graphical
or console).

Is there any command already included in 10.2 or any program to install?

thx for your help

Filippo <no.spam@here.ok> writes:
> I simply would like to measure how many Megabytes per day/month I download
> and upload from/to the Inernet.

http://community.smoothwall.org/foru...pic.php?t=9920

http://community.smoothwall.org/foru...ic.php?t=10140

??

they use graphs made i think by Perl and GD Graph

and, what hands off to the mentioned graph maker, I do not know. But
whatever it is is what can tell the used amount of bandwidth.

AFAIK the Smoothwall logs bandwidth useage even without that
particular mod.

If you find out, please reply here so I can learn what it is that makes
it happen.

--

Alan_CU b c n u

Filippo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I simply would like to measure how many Megabytes per day/month I download
> and upload from/to the Inernet.
>
> netstat -s and my dsl modem interface show me how many packets have been
> transmitted and received since uptime, but packets quantity doesn't tell me
> anything about the quantity.
>
> simply speaking, I would like something like the kppp log (either graphical
> or console).
>
> Is there any command already included in 10.2 or any program to install?

With iptraf (which is included in slackware) you can monitor traffic per
interface or even per protocol/port. It runs in a terminal window,
however, so it doesn't have fancy graphics. I used to start iptraf at
boot time on a virtual console.

ifconfig also gives you the downloaded/uploaded bytes per interface.

Jens

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:39:00 +0100, Filippo wrote :

> I simply would like to measure how many Megabytes per day/month I download
> and upload from/to the Inernet.

[snip]

>
> Is there any command already included in 10.2 or any program to install?

I like the Bandwidth Monitoring section of Webmin, http://www.webmin.com.
It just adds some 'log' rules to an IPTables script, and you can see the
output as a list by date, protocol, port etc of how much was down/uploaded
over a specified timeframe.

NoSleep.

Jens <not-a-valid-address@onlinehome.de> wrote:
> With iptraf (which is included in slackware) you can monitor traffic per
> interface or even per protocol/port.

Hey, that's pretty spiffy. I never knew about that one. I was
going to suggest ntop (http://www.ntop.org), which is pretty similar,
but is accessed through a browser. It also does some nice graphing and
statistical breakdown of port usage, packet size, etc.

--
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression
and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me
anymore.
-- William Cowper

Jens wrote:

> With iptraf (which is included in slackware) you can monitor traffic per
> interface or even per protocol/port. It runs in a terminal window,
> however, so it doesn't have fancy graphics. I used to start iptraf at
> boot time on a virtual console.
>
> ifconfig also gives you the downloaded/uploaded bytes per interface.

thanks to everybody for the suggestions.
actually something quick and simple, even if it is command line, is better
for me.
I have tried iptraf, and it is fine.

Jens wrote:

> ifconfig also gives you the downloaded/uploaded bytes per interface.

ifconfig is good as well, thanks
just one question: "RX bytes" are calculated since I have installed the
system, or since last boot up?

Filippo <no.spam@here.ok> wrote:
> Jens wrote:

> > ifconfig also gives you the downloaded/uploaded bytes per interface.

> ifconfig is good as well, thanks
> just one question: "RX bytes" are calculated since I have
> installed the system, or since last boot up?

Beware of relying on this measure ... it can wrap, as I found
when transferring N gig of files from one maching for another.

--
#Paul

KDE users: I have just found this utility:

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=16264

for the previous version there is a Slackware package:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/k...6.tgz?download

Paul Kinsler wrote:

> it can wrap

sorry, what does it mean?