How to list this data -

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Bob,

On Saturday 31 October 2009 05:13 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> On 31/10/09 19:11, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> On Saturday 31 October 2009 11:41 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>>
>>> My objective being to keep a record of daily bandwidth usage. [35% or
>>> 6.0 gB is my current usage, 17.0 the 30 day download allotment, the
>>> other numbers for upload usage.]
>>
>> I know this is not the answer to your question but since you mention
>> you want to monitor your bandwidth usage, you could try vnstat[1]. Its
>> a very nifty light weight utility which keeps track of your network
>> traffic by running cron jobs at small intervals of time[2] and
>> presents all the information in neat graphs on the console.
>
> Yes that looks interesting, new to me ...
>
> If it correlates with the Wildblue data, even approximately, it would
> work for me. But then I have other computers in the house on this
> system. Might be able to take data before the router with an eth. hub
> perhaps?

I am not sure whether vnstat can monitor something outside the box like 
a hub or a router. But if at your house all the traffic goes through one 
of the machines, then you can specify the interface to monitor with the 
option `--iface _interface_'.

Good luck figuring this out :)

> Thanks.
>
> Bob
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Suvayu

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