On Monday 07 October 2002 7:58 pm, PayalR wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a small urgent problem. As I told you all before, I have my single
> Linux box at a server farm where I have to pay per Mb of data transmitted.
> I have a doubt that those guys there are cheating me. They are taking more
> money than actual data transmitted. Can I use iptables to log all incoming
> and outgoing data and see total incoming/outgoing data in a day/week/month?
Why not just use the byte counters in ifconfig ?
eg: ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:05:3F:8D
inet addr:192.168.44.101 Bcast:192.168.44.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1930 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1950 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:912045 (890.6 Kb) TX bytes:265386 (259.1 Kb)
Interrupt:9 Base address:0x100
So this machine I'm on now has received 912045 bytes and sent 265386 bytes
since the interface was initialised....
Antony.
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