RichardA wrote: >> For bandwidth monitoring you could use a program that can handle SNMP like >> nagios. > > Isn't Nagios overkill for something like this? > > Typing these just before powering down the PC would save the date and > the amount of traffic for that session in a text file: > > date +%F >> net_traffic.txt > ifconfig | grep -m 1 "RX bytes" >> net_traffic.txt > > But this is incredibly ugly. Maybe someone could post a better command, > and which file to put it in to have it executed automatically at > shutdown? > > -- Richard >
Or if you're lucky your router will give you an idea of the bandwidth used. In other cases sometimes your ISP might have an online monitor. Enta has a pretty good bandwidth monitor so I know exactly how much bandwidth I'm using. I haven't gone over my limits yet but I have come close. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
