connectrion status

[Edward]

IT Clown wrote:

> Hi
> 
> How do you see you're connection status when you dial out
> to connect to the internet?Like how long have you been
> connected and bytes send/received?The speed you connected
> at?

You can check how many bytes sent/received over the ppp interface by 
using ifconfig.

To find which speed you're connected at, the only way I know is to grep 
CONNECT in /var/log/messages.

Regards,
Ed.