This is what I will do. I didn't see anything in Synaptic that would do this automatically, but the Gnome Network manager tracks the current session. I can just print out a few of them when I log off and develop some sort of an average.
I guess we can close these two streams down now. Mark On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 13:35 -0400, Allen Weiner wrote: > On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 11:21 -0400, Sean Dague wrote: > > On 03/24/2011 11:12 AM, Mark Wallace wrote: > > > Verizon tells me that they do not monitor how much individual accounts > > > are using in gigabytes. I am moving to Canada where unlimited internet > > > access is not available and there are penalties if you don't manage your > > > usage properly. > > > > > > Is there a way that I can keep track? I don't see a package in Synaptic > > > that measures it within the system. > > > > The best approach is probably to use a wireless router that has > > accounting in it. If you install dd-wrt on any of the supported > > routers, you'll get nice pretty graphs showing your usage. > > > A quickie approach, during a single log-on session, at any time during > the session if you issue the command "ifconfig eth0" you get a report of > bytes sent and received during the session. > > [aweiner@localhost ~]$ ifconfig eth0 > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:67:83:AC:D2 > inet addr:192.168.1.150 Bcast:192.168.1.255 > Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::230:67ff:fe83:acd2/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:27068 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:18422 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:28674519 (27.3 MiB) TX bytes:1860764 (1.7 MiB) > Interrupt:44 > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 > May 4 - Inkscape > Jun 1 - Zimbra -- Robert Mark Wallace 60 Delaware Road Newburgh, NY 12550-3802 Tel: (845) 566-0586 US Cell (845) 264-7228 Ca Cell: (902) 314-4521 _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 May 4 - Inkscape Jun 1 - Zimbra
