Aparna Appaiah wrote: > Dear List, > > I am using the MTNL Triband broadband service with Debian Sarge. I > connect to the modem using DHCP, and get on and off by using > > /etc/init.d/networking (start|stop)
Try bridged mode(instead of DHCP) to get a PPP session. > Now, I am looking for an unobtrusive way of measuring how many bytes I > use up every session, Everytime PPP session ends, the ip-down script is called with environment variables BYTES_SENT and BYTES_RCVD set as per that session. Simply 'cat' that to a log file with timestamp. For more details: man pppd, adsl-setup Amish
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