[plug] broadband monitoring?

[Gavin Chester]

Excuse top post:


I'd have thought that what you want is fairly easy. Some apps will give
you stats in the fashion of kppp while logging for eth0. What about
gkrellm? it would be the best option for your chosen WM, I reckon. It
gives bytes in/out reports for daily, weekly monthly for any interface
ppp0, eth0, etc. Otherwise, if you switch to icewm it gives a nice
little traffic monitor on the task bar that will give a usage report
too.

But 400+Mb when not doing anything? Are you running a cron to update
your package cache every day or every week? Only thing I can think of
otherwise you're being diddled by your provider or you're sitting on a
zombie machine. 

Gavin

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 08:57 +1000, Rob Dunne wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> 
> Lyndon Maydwell wrote:
>  > nettop is pretty nice
> 
> I couldn't get this to compile
>  >gcc  -I . -I   -g -O2  -DVERSION=\"0.2.3\" -c nettop.c
>  >nettop.c: In function ‘main’:
>  >nettop.c:219: error: invalid lvalue in assignment
> 
> but while looking for an answer to this I found jnettop
> http://jnettop.kubs.info/wiki/
> 
> which seems do the same thing. It can apparently interrogate the
> net traffic in a large number of ways (by setting rules) and
> store the results to a log file (haven't discovered how yet).
> 
> 
> Ben Woods wrote:
> > I find netspeed to be very good for this scenario.
> its a gnome applet. I am running KDE and couldn't understand the
> instructions to start it. Perhaps I cant on my system.
> 
> Also, I don't see anything on its home page about logging the volume of 
> traffic from each site. I might give up on this one.
> 
> Thanks for the help
> Bye
> Rob
> 
> 
> 
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