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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:26:52 +0530
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Subject: Re: Tracking data transfer?
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Well what I was looking for is, some utility which reports the total
datatransfer through a particular IP associated with one of the NICs
of my box on a monthly basis. Could anyone help?

Regards
S.

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:35:52 -0600, Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:02:24PM +0530, Subhro wrote:
> > > > Could anyone suggest me a port which will allow me to keep a watch on the
> > > > net data transfer that had occured through a particular IP that is
> > > > associated with the NIC of my box?
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > > S.
> > >
> > >
> > > Check trafshow. You can also use tcpdump for more detiled info or mrtg for
> > > summary info :)
> > >
> >
> > I meant a watch on the total data transferred through or from the IP
> > in questions, not the packets which are transferred via that IP.
> >
> > Regards
> > S.
> 
> trafshow gives some summary stats at the bottom of the screen, such as
> total bytes, bytes/s, and total packets.  you can pass expressions to
> trafshow such as "host 10.0.1.1" - the same expression syntax as that of
> tcpdump, I believe.
> 
> Nathan
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