On 06/13/07 09:57:27, Tony Nelson wrote:
At 9:30 AM -0700 6/13/07, Geoffrey Leach wrote: >My Internet connection is via a satellite service that throttles the >connection once I exceed a number of Mb. I'd like to monitor this so as >to avoid unpleasant surprises. I think that what I need here is a >specialized proxy. Can anyone point me to a proxy that either does such >a thing or is sufficiently simple to be modifiable by a non-guru? Perl >preferred, FWIW. Don't know about a proxy, but iptables can do something like this, and there is also vnstat in Extras.
vnstat pointed me at /proc/net/dev, which gave me what I needed. Thanks.
