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From: Alasdair Ramsay <alasdair.ramsay@cdc.uk.net>
Subject: Re: measure traffic
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 10:46:35 +0100
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Then you can plot them onto rolling graphs using mrtg, looks very
pretty.  I have a small shell script that reads the byte counters from
the /proc tree, resets them and plots the results.

Regards
Alasdair

Antony Stone wrote:
| On Monday 07 October 2002 7:58 pm, PayalR wrote:
|
|
|>Hi,
|>I have a small urgent problem. As I told you all before, I have my single
|>Linux box at a server farm where I have to pay per Mb of data transmitted.
|>I have a doubt that those guys there are cheating me. They are taking more
|>money than actual data transmitted. Can I use iptables to log all incoming
|>and outgoing data and see total incoming/outgoing data in a
day/week/month?
|
|
| Why not just use the byte counters in ifconfig ?
|
| eg: ifconfig eth1
|
| eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:2D:05:3F:8D
|           inet addr:192.168.44.101  Bcast:192.168.44.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
|           UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
|           RX packets:1930 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
|           TX packets:1950 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
|           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
|           RX bytes:912045 (890.6 Kb)  TX bytes:265386 (259.1 Kb)
|           Interrupt:9 Base address:0x100
|
| So this machine I'm on now has received 912045 bytes and sent 265386
bytes
| since the interface was initialised....
|
| Antony.
|
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