On 6/10/06, Arun K. Khan knura@yahoo.com wrote:
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 21:08 +0530, Arun K. Khan wrote:
This is a very reliable number. You could write a script to capture the date/time, Rx/Tx (from ifconfig) @ the begining and the end of your pppoe session and save it in a CSV format but ... there are a couple of solutions that were discussed in the Linux India Help list - sorry cannot remember them of the cuff. I suggest you search thru the list archive http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=linux-india-help
From my admin notes here are a couple of tools to report on bytes
uploaded/downloaded on any network interface:
vnstat http://freshmeat.net/projects/vnstat/
ibmonitor http://ibmonitor.sourceforge.net/ - requires Time::HiRes PERL module
I'll try out vnstat. Thanks for the pointer.
Aparna.