Bandwidth monitoring

[Michael Sierchio]

Julian Elischer wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand why not just tell ipfw to count all packets
> that an ISP is likely to charge for and have the tables 'reaped every
> now and then by a daemon to give a time dimension to the data..

That was my thought, though the OP isn't using ipfw, and I'm
woefully ignorant (and mostly uninterested) in ipfilter.

You could just as your ISP for access to the SNMP MIB that they're
using to bill you.