On 11/27/18 2:22 PM, Roger Heflin wrote: > if you have sar installed (package is sysstat) then sar -n DEV will > give you 10 minute network counters, it will give you 1 minute data if > you turn sar's sample timer down to 1 minute. > > snmp if you router supports it, and I have also ssh'ed into my router > ever X minutes and collected its network stats on routers that did not > properly support snmp. Which is why I suggested cacti/RRDTool. RRD does the SNMP fetch/decode, cacti graphs it in a pretty readable format. All Linux systems support SNMP. SOHO routers _may_ support it. Probably many don't. > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 2:28 PM Tim via users > <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Tim: >>>> If I want to check on how much data my computer's been putting >>>> through my ISP over the last few days, is there anything logged by >>>> default that I can look at, or do need to install something extra? >> >> Ed Greshko: >>> Are you saying you have a single system with only traffic going to >>> the ISP? >> >> No, it's several devices going through a modem/router, which doesn't >> really give enough info, so I was hoping I could find something on the >> computer to rule it in or out as being the sudden upturn in traffic. >> >> While basic info is easy to find out (like how much data since it >> connected), that doesn't tell me anything about what it used yesterday, >> or the day before, etc. >> >> I'd been keeping an eye on that, day by day, manually, as I was getting >> closer to going over my monthly quota, then suddenly I've been rated >> limited as 12 gigs has gone through *somewhere*. >> >> To make matters worse, the rate limiting is so severe that many >> websites just time out and fail (including the ISP's own website). >> While the ISP claims that they throttle you, rather than charge you >> more or cut you off, to allow you to continue using the internet until >> the next month, it doesn't work. >> >> Conversely, when they had a network configuration fault that limited me >> by the same amount, earlier this year, that speed was considered so >> unusable as to be worthy of giving me a refund. >> >> It seems that in today's modern high-bandwidth internet, if you can't >> finish loading a page in a few seconds, it aborts on you. To be more >> weird, the ISP has a transparent proxy, that ought to mitigate that >> issue (they could grab the page in one go, and feed it to you slowly). >> For the major ISP that is the backbone for the entire country, they're >> very crap at doing their job. >> >> -- >> [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp >> Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC 2018 x86_64 >> >> Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. >> There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see >> the messages posted to the mailing list. >> >> If "2001: A Space Odyssey" taught us anything, it's that Siri will, >> one day, murder us all. >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html >> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
