On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 12:48 +0530, Aparna Appaiah wrote: > Now, I am looking for an unobtrusive way of measuring how many bytes I > use up every session, especially as I find the MTNL account check very > unreliable.
Indeed, I have come to the same conclusion after going thru the session details report. > I heard that the TX bytes and RX bytes are the correct > indicators in the output of /sbin/ifconfig eth0. I wanted to know > whether noting these down is a measure of how much I have used in that > session. Also, I wanted to know whether these details are logged > elsewhere on my PC, in some file, so that I can extract the details > from that file. This is a very reliable number. You could write a script to capture the date/time, Rx/Tx (from ifconfig) @ the begining and the end of your pppoe session and save it in a CSV format but ... there are a couple of solutions that were discussed in the Linux India Help list - sorry cannot remember them of the cuff. I suggest you search thru the list archive http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=linux-india-help -- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) "Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing." -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
