monitoring internet traffic

[Tony Nelson]

At 9:30 AM -0700 6/13/07, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>My Internet connection is via a satellite service that throttles the
>connection once I exceed a number of Mb. I'd like to monitor this so as
>to avoid unpleasant surprises. I think that what I need here is a
>specialized proxy. Can anyone point me to a proxy that either does such
>a thing or is sufficiently simple to be modifiable by a non-guru? Perl
>preferred, FWIW.

Don't know about a proxy, but iptables can do something like this, and
there is also vnstat in Extras.
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