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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@psinet.net.au>
cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Grabbing throughput stats within pppd.
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On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> > how about netstat -ib?
> > if that doesn't give you bytes, then we'll gladly accept patches
> > :)
> > of course there is the usual ipfw stuff..
> 
> Erm, I think people aren't understanding me here. :-)
> 
> I was after a way INSIDE pppd. :-) (its to implement RADIUS accounting).
> Since I'm not really interested in accounting for non-IP stuff, I was
> wondering if there was a way to account JUST IP packets coming down
> the ppp link, inside pppd. Otherwise I'll just be evil, and read the
> interface byte counts.

  netstat -b -I ppp0   will give you the info for just ppp0.

> -- 
> Adrian Chadd			| "Unix doesn't stop you from doing
> <adrian@psinet.net.au>		|   stupid things because that would 
> 				|    stop you from doing clever things"
> 
> 
> 
> 

Tom