tool to mesaure internet traffic

[Joseph Kubik]

Also, find out from your ISP exactly what  and how they are measuring.
If they are including different amounts of header info  than you are,
your numbers will not agree.
-Joseph-

On 6/23/05, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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