From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 24 12:45:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0146637B40B for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:45:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cultdeadsheep.org (charon.cultdeadsheep.org [80.65.226.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F62043F3F for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:45:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org) Received: (qmail 61429 invoked from network); 24 Jun 2003 19:45:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chuck.cultdeadsheep.org) (192.168.0.12) by goofy.cultdeadsheep.org with SMTP; 24 Jun 2003 19:45:32 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 21:45:39 +0200 From: Clement Laforet To: Adam Message-Id: <20030624214539.3629cdea.sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org> In-Reply-To: <1056467581.42828.26.camel@jake> References: <1056467581.42828.26.camel@jake> Organization: tH3 cUlt 0f tH3 d3@d sH33p X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) X-Face: ._cVVRDn#-2((lnfi^P7CoD4htI$4+#G/G)!w|,}H5yK~%(3-C.JlEYbOjJGFwJkt*7N^%z jYeu[;}]}F"3}l5R'l"X0HbvT^D\Q&%deCo)MayY`);TO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bandwidth monitoring X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:45:36 -0000 What about IPA ? http://ipa-system.sourceforge.net/ ${PORTSDIR}/sysutils/ipa regards, clem On 24 Jun 2003 11:13:01 -0400 Adam wrote: > My ISP is placing strict restrictions on how much I can transfer each > month, with high penalties for exceeding their limits. However, they > don't provide any way for their customer's to check to see how much > they've transferred, so we end up transferring far less than what we are > allowed, just to make sure we avoid paying the fines for going over the > limit. > > So, what I need to do is find a way to monitor my total bandwidth > through my external NIC. My gateway is running FreeBSD 4.8 with > ipf+ipnat. > > I *don't* need anything fancy. All I need is to be able to check at any > time how much I've transferred since the first of the month. What's the > easiest way to set up something like this? I know there are fancy > solutions with graphs with usage stats and such, but that's not what I'm > after. > > Thanks for your advice, > > -- > Adam > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"