[plug] Dialup Traffic Counter

[Carl Gherardi]

On 5/9/07, Timothy White <weirdit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Having recently gotten wireless broadband, I now need to monitor my
> traffic usage a little better.
> One way I have heard of doing it, is monitoring the syslog for the
> disconnect lines, does anyone know of an easier way? Or a program that
> you use to do it?
>
> My googling isn't working very well, finding lots of non linux apps,
> and apt-get isn't finding my anything.

SNMP + monitoring app like cacti, mtrg should work. Seems like overkill.

I'm about to go through the process myself.

For the syslog hack:
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?s=a97f29e39bc575985f063714e9f7b2fe&t=66786

Carl G