Bandwidth monitoring

[Clement Laforet]

What about IPA ?

http://ipa-system.sourceforge.net/
${PORTSDIR}/sysutils/ipa
regards,

clem


On 24 Jun 2003 11:13:01 -0400
Adam <blueeskimo at gmx.net> wrote:

> My ISP is placing strict restrictions on how much I can transfer each
> month, with high penalties for exceeding their limits. However, they
> don't provide any way for their customer's to check to see how much
> they've transferred, so we end up transferring far less than what we are
> allowed, just to make sure we avoid paying the fines for going over the
> limit.
> 
> So, what I need to do is find a way to monitor my total bandwidth
> through my external NIC. My gateway is running FreeBSD 4.8 with
> ipf+ipnat. 
> 
> I *don't* need anything fancy. All I need is to be able to check at any
> time how much I've transferred since the first of the month. What's the
> easiest way to set up something like this? I know there are fancy
> solutions with graphs with usage stats and such, but that's not what I'm
> after.
> 
> Thanks for your advice,
> 
> -- 
> Adam <blueeskimo at gmx.net>
> 
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