[plug] Volume accounting

[Leon Brooks]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 05:19, John Clayton wrote:
> Hi all I was wondering if anyone knew of any internet usage
> accounting software that I can use to track my download limit.

Feed the counters from iptables into any one of countless stats 
programs, like this one:

    http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/

If you're on a PPP link, you can simply write out the figures pppd the 
ip-down.local script (or add a script to ip-down.d/ on Debian). Pppd 
passes them to you as envars. If you stay on for long periods 
(days/weeks), you might like to do regular (hourly?) snapshots if the 
numbers from "ifconfig ppp0" in case of power failures.

At ArachNet, I can use "lynx -dump" to pull the current figures from 
their website. You can use rrdtool or similar to graph those too and 
see how well you're doing.

Cheers; Leon

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