On Friday 17 Apr 2009, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
> I am using MTNL's Triband combo offer which gives 600 mb download a
> month. This has been upped from 400 mb just last month.
It is quite likely there is a glitch in the MTNL billing system.
I just got my bill yesterday for March. Starting from March, I had
switched to the 512 Kbps unlimited plan in which the CPE rental of Rs.
50 is waived. Yet, lo behold there is a line item for CPE rental Rs.
50!
Their punch line "MTNL hai to sahi hai."
> I usually run a check with knetworkmonitor and gkrellm and there
> would always be a small discrepancy between the usage shown on my
> machine and that shown by mtnl, where mtnl would always show slightly
> lower usage than on my machine.
You can capture the total packet traffic on eth0 from the output of
ifconfig when you reboot/poweroff
<transcript>
ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1F:D0:E9:15:61
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10488 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9436 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:10218799 (9.7 Mb) TX bytes:1105652 (1.0 Mb)
Interrupt:252 Base address:0xc000
<transcript>
Capture the line RX bytes and TX bytes into a table and sum it up at the
end of the month for your totals. (write a shell script and include it
in the shutdown/reboot process)
HTH,
Arun Khan
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