tool to mesaure internet traffic

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 03:32:36PM -0400, Franco Saliola wrote:
> The computer lab that I administer is charge on a per megabyte basis
> for any internet traffic exceeding 3GB per month, so I'm looking for a
> internet traffic monitoring tool. Ideally the tool will display the
> commutative monthly traffic as a gnome console application, but I'm
> happy with a tool that will just report to me. I've googled and I have
> not had much luck. So either I don't have the correct keywords, or no
> active tool exists. (I've come across some applications that are a few
> years old and no longer under development.)

ipac-ng

Also check out the article "Policy Routing for Fun and Profit" (a google
search will find it) from last years Linux Journal.  They have some
stuff about measuring usage so they can change which route and what
traffic speed to permit to avoid going over a certain limit.  I guess if
you can do that, you can easily figure out how much you have used a
given month.

Nice graphs generated too in that article.

As for a gnome thing, well you can probably write one that shows the
data colledted by the above utilities.

Lennart Sorensen
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