monitoring internet traffic

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 06/14/07 05:24:34, Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 09:30 -0700, 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.
>> 
>> It might be worth seeing if there's a specific bandwidth meter for  
>> your
>> ISP.  My ISP has one for Windows that shows up in its system tray,
>> someone else made a Java applet that runs on everything that does the
>> same thing.  They're not the only ISP with tools like that.  It logs
>> into your account, and extracts some data periodically, and draws up  
>> a
>> little graph.
>> 
>> 
> I don't know if this works with Hughes but someone provided this to  
> me and it works perfectly with Wildblue's FAP data.
> 
> From my notes:
[snip]

The applet is a great idea. I've made a temporary fix with a script  
that extracts the data from /proc/net/dev, which at least gets the  
situation under control. My ISP (Hughes) does not acknowledge the  
existence of Linux, so I can forget about any help in that area. Even  
worse, the data that they provide is late by an hour or more, so if I  
exceed their limit, I'm back to modem speeds for a day before I know it.