-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Then you can plot them onto rolling graphs using mrtg, looks very pretty. I have a small shell script that reads the byte counters from the /proc tree, resets them and plots the results. Regards Alasdair Antony Stone wrote: | 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. | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9oql54+7BX0uR648RAiVmAJ98GbbdRT1ju5fq6DVUGGv3SC87ZgCfQbsb klhUAERGjgpRGhjllZ5GWBo= =GfdD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
