---------- quoting gabor ---------- > i've just got connected to tghe internet using a cable modem, > and i'd like to know how much do i down/upload. > > so ideally i want something that will run in the background and create a > logfile, and i can ask him how much was the upstream/downstream traffic > for the last x days.
I searched for something like that for a long time, but found nothing what I wanted. Then, I found a tool called "ipac-ng" [1] on sourceforge (don't think it's in portage) which is *exactly* what I need. I had it up and running in less than 15 minutes, so it's really easy to use, but you can do very powerfull things with it as well. For example, you *can* log which kind of traffic comes in and goes out (ee. all http traffic), or you *can* log which traffic goes to which host (or subnet or anything like that), but you don't have to. You can generate ASCII output with it, or you can create nice PNG graphs with HTML pages -- all what you need. You can found ipac-ng here: [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipac-ng/ Greetings, Matthias -- Could this be the best day of my life? -- Homer Simpson Homer the Heretic -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
