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
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