Each network card keeps track of how many packets and bytes it has received and transmitted. When you run ifconfig, it shows you this information. I believe, ultimately, ifconfig simply reads this information from /proc/net/dev Previously, to keep track of data transferred I simply had a script that dumped this information to a log on a daily basis and on every reboot. Note that if you transfer a lot of data, these counters wrap after 2^32 bytes (4 GiB), so you may want to log this type of information more than once a day.
Leendert On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:59:30 +0200 gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > 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 found mrtg, but isn't there anything simpler? > > thanks, > gabor > -- > That's life for you, said McDunn. Someone always waiting for someone > who never comes home. Always someone loving something more than that > thing loves them. And after awhile you want to destroy whatever > that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more. > -- R. Bradbury, "The Fog Horn" > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
