Usage traffic details for ADSL connection

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 22.07.2005 schrieb Parameshwara Bhat um 7:46:

> There is an upload/download limit on my ADSL connection.I want to know
> how much I uploaded/downloaded for a given period to keep tab on my usage.

> Parameshwara Bhat

yum install vnstat

It comes with Fedora Extras and can handle all devices which are listed
in /proc - means eth, ppp (doesn't matter whether pppoe is involved)
devices.

A different approach can be to create an /etc/ppp/ip-down.local script
file with following content

DATE=$(date +"%Y.%m.%d %H:%M:%S")
# Format: date  time  onlinetime [s]  bytes send   bytes reveived
/bin/echo $DATE $CONNECT_TIME $BYTES_SENT $BYTES_RCVD >>
/var/log/ppp-usage

That will let the pppd append connection data to the named log file when
disconnecting.

Alexander


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