Shawn P. Neugebauer said: > I have a few Linux boxes that have uptimes of days to months. I need > to try to estimate bandwidth usage for a long-ish period of time (e.g., > days or weeks) in order to characterize how much bandwidth I use > (to decide on level-of-service issues for a new ISP---I have to move :( > ) . Is there a way to tell the amount (in bytes) of traffic sent and > received by a running box? Is there a simple *non-intrusive* tool that > might "add a little value" to whatever is built-in? I'm aware of MRTG, > and Orca, but these are overkill for this type of problem.
Take a look at the output of /sbin/ifconfig. It should have a line like RX bytes:2328595615 (2.1 GiB) TX bytes:3104087047 (2.8 GiB) or so. Have a script dump the byte counts to a text file once an hour, and then you can do a little simple analysis with a hand-rolled tool. -- No PGP signature because I'm far from home and sending via webmail. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
