On Saturday 17 Jul 2004 12:29, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Saturday 17 Jul 2004 10:44 am, Margot wrote: > > I'm considering upgrading to a broadband service sometime later in > > the year. > > > > Many of the packages available seem to be limited by *size* - eg > > Wanadoo has a package for 17.99 a month with a limit of 2GB per > > month and a package of 15GB per month for 27.99. > > Not all of them do. OTOH, the cheap ones probably do moreso. > > I strongly suggest you check out ADSLGuide: > > http://adslguide.org/ > > They have a very good ISP comparison feature. > > > Before deciding > > which package to go for, I need to know how much I'm using now - and > > then add a bit for safety! I don't really want to download or upload > > much more than I do already, but I just want to do it faster! > > An always on, always fast connection has ways of subverting your intent > > :-) > : > > Presumably somewhere in Mandrake (10CE currently) there's some sort > > of log which will tell me how much I upload/download daily, so I can > > check it over the course of a couple of months. > > What am I looking for, and where am I likely to find it? > > For a quick and dirty solution you could just use "ifconfig" (as root). > Since I don't know how your network is built, I can't say if the stats > it gives are the ones you want. > > You could check out ntop. That does what you want, and a hell of a lot > more. You might find installing and using it a challenge; there's no RPM > that I could find, the source is only available in CVS, there are > several dependencies and no real tutorial. Having said that I had no > real trouble getting it up and running. > > http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html
I was looking for the same thing when I saw Margot's post, I've found RPMs at http://rpm.pbone.net - downloading now and will be trying it shortly -- http://www.poogle.co.uk
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