[ILUG-BOM] rconnect monitoring in Debian

[sherlock at antispam]

On Friday 25 March 2005 00:21, Harshal wrote:
> any body using relieance rconnect to connect to net. i am running a
> debian box here, and i just got there 650 plan where you pay flat
> Rs.650 and get always on connection with 1Gb of download limit. the
> problem is how do i know how much have i downloaded?

Several tools for network stats. Google.
ifconfig will give you the number of packets recieved /sent. Multiply
by the mtu usually 1500 and u have the number of bytes sent /recieved
 since the interface went up. 

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